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Painter, draughtsman, lithographer, teacher. Son of the icon-painter Grigory Chernetsov, elder brother of Nikanor Chernetsov and Polycarp Chernetsov (1822–1842). Taught drawing by his elder brother Y...
Italian painter, engraver, teacher. Great-grandfather of Lev Bruni and Tatyana Bruni. Descended from Florentine humanist and historian Leonardo Bruni (c. 1370–1444). Son of Antonio Baroffi Bruni (176...
Painter, teacher. Son of an emancipated serf called Konstantin Zaryanko. Studied under Alexei Venetsianov and Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1830s), where he was awarded the title of...
Painter, teacher. Cousin of Peter Carl Fabergé. Born in Reval in Estonia (1830) in the family of Gottlieb Friedrich Wenig (music teacher, organist and violinist at St Nicholas’s Church in Reval) and ...
Painter, teacher. Born in Novgorod to Taras Markov, a watchmaker and graduate of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1802). Studied under Alexei Yegorov, Vasily Shebuyev and Andrei Ivanov at the Imperial A...
Painter, engraver, teacher. Attended drawing classes (1811–18) and studied history painting under Vasily Shebuyev (1816–18) at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Awarded minor and major silver medals (181...