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Draughtsman, lithographer, painter. Born in the family of sculptor Johann Georg Österreich (1790). Studied sculpture at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1801–12). Drew a series of portraits of Russian w...
Draughtsman, caricaturist. Born in the family of Lvov Nevakhovich in Warsaw (1817). Published the Jumble album of caricatures (1846–49) and Magic Lantern (1848). Died at the age of thirty-three in Od...
Painter, theatrical designer. Grandson of Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern, son of Vasily Zhukovsky and Elisabeth von Reutern. Born in the Free City of Frankfurt-on-Main (1845). Did not receive a special...
German painter, draughtsman. Born in the family of a German nobleman called Friedrich Krüger in the village of Großbadegast in the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau (1797). Studied under Carl Wilhelm Kol...
Painter, draughtsman, miniaturist. Born in the family of Nikolai Mikhailov in St Petersburg (1786). Studied under Stepan Schukin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1795). Awarded a minor silver me...
Draughtsman, painter, engraver. Born in the family of Mikhail Korneyev Khorol in Poltava Province (1780?). Studied engraving and history painting under Grigory Ugryumov at the Imperial Academy of Art...
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, caricaturist, teacher. Born (1802). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1813–24). Awarded a minor silver medal (1820), major silver medal (1822), minor silver ...
Painter, teacher. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a retired sergeant of the Vyatka Infantry Regiment called Yeremei Yakovlev (1787). Studied under Stepan Schukin at the Imperial Academy of Art...
Painter, draughtsman. Father of Apollon, Valerian and Leonid Maikov. Born in the family of Apollon Maikov in Moscow (1794). Educated at the Second Military Academy, graduated as an army field officer...
Painter. Born in the family of Alexander Bubnov in Gatchina (1850). Studied under Ivan Kramskoi at the evening classes of the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1863–...