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German theatrical designer, painter, architect, teacher. Born in Regensburg in Bavaria to scene-shifter Adam Roller and opera singer Marianne Rothmeier (1805). Moved with his family to Vienna (1810),...
Painter, teacher. Studied under Carl Wilhelm von Rabus and Alexei Savrasov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1851–58) and under Sokrat Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of ...
Painter, draughtsman, caricaturist. Born in the town of Ufa in Orenburg Province (now Bashkortostan) in the family of a serf called Isaac Timashevsky (1822). Awarded his freedom from a landowner call...
Scottish photographer, painter. Born in Edinburgh to Scottish timber merchant Andrew Carrick and his wife Janet Lauder (1827). Moved with his parents to Kronstadt (1828) and St Petersburg (1844). Stu...
Lithographer, draughtsman, painter. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1855–61). Awarded a minor silver medal (1860) and the title of free artist of portrait painting (1861). Ran a lithographic...
Sculptor, draughtsman, teacher, writer on art. Born in St Petersburg in a family of actors of the Imperial Theatres (1817). Danced at the Bolshoi (Stone) Theatre (1824) and took drawing lessons from ...
Sculptor, teacher. Raised at the Moscow Foundling Hospital (1828–38). Studied sculpture under Nikolai Ramazanov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1847–50). Awarded the tit...
Engraver, illustrator. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1809). Worked as an engraver at the Military Printing Works in St Petersburg (1830s–50s). Contributed lithographs to Costumes and ...
Painter. Born in the family of Andrei Ivanov (1812). Studied under Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1844). Awarded a minor silver medal (1844) and a major silver medal (1845). Wor...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born as a serf in the family of Ivan Ivanov in the village of Kazakovo near Palekh (1818). Moved to St Petersburg (1833), where he studied under Grigory Chernetsov and ...