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Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the family of Dmitry Losyev in the town of Bezhetsk in Tver Province (1835). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1850s). Awarded the title of free artist o...
Engraver, painter, draughtsman, illustrator. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a master of the St Petersburg Mint called Yakov Afanasiev (1793). Educated at the Imperial Academy of Arts after th...
Engraver, painter, draughtsman, teacher. Brother of the poets Alexei Zhemchuzhnikov (1821–1908), Alexander Zhemchuzhnikov (1826–1896) and Vladimir Zhemchuzhnikov (1830–1884), cousin of the writer Cou...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, caricaturist, teacher. Born in the family of Mark Volkov in the village of Chmutovo in Nizhny Novgorod Province (1827). Studied history painting under Fidelio Bruni at...
Engraver, illustrator, painter. Born in St Petersburg in the family of an impoverished Pole called Pawel Friederici (1803). Studied under Nikolai Utkin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1815–18, expel...
Sculptor. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a serf called Nikita Durnov (1825). Awarded his freedom and the title of non-class artist (1848). Sculpted busts of architect Dmitry Shebuyev (1847), ...
Lithuanian lithographer, draughtsman, painter, teacher. Born in the Lithuanian town of Raseiniai in the family of a titular councillor called Steponas Cedrauskas (1815). Studied under Jan Rustem at t...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in Tula in the family of a provincial icon-painter called Andrei Popov (1832). Studied under his father in Tula and under Maxim Vorobyov and Bogdan Gottfried Wille...
Prussian painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of Carl Piratsky in the Free City of Danzig (c. 1813). Awarded a grant by Tsar Nicholas I and studied under Alexander Gottlob Sauerwe...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Son of German landscape painter Georg Friedrich Schlater (1804–1870). Born in Dorpat (1834). Studied under his father in Dorpat and under Maxim Vorobyov at the Imper...