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Painter, teacher. Born to a family of gold panners at Uktussky Zavod near Ekaterinburg (1835). Painted icons for the local Church of the Transfiguration and portraits of relatives (1840s). Worked at ...
Painter. Son of Pyotr Yefimovich Zabolotsky. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1858–66). Awarded minor silver medals (1859, 1860, 1863) and major silver medals (1859, 1861). One of the rebelli...
Painter, lithographer, teacher. Studied history painting under Timoleon Carl von Neff, Fidelio Bruni and Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1855–63). Awarded minor silver medals (1858, 18...
Painter, draughtsman, etcher, teacher, restorer. Son of Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, cousin of Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich Clodt von Jürgensburg, uncle of Baron Nikolai Clodt von Jürgensburg....
Painter, teacher. Son of the wood engraver Baron Konstantin Clodt von Jürgensburg, nephew of Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, cousin of Baron Mikhail Petrovich Clodt von Jürgensburg, uncle once rem...
Painter, graphic artist. Father of Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz. Graduated from the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Berlin (1854) and moved to St Petersburg (1857), where he painted commissions for th...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of a poor merchant in the village of Timoshevo in Kaluga Province (1840). Studied under Sergei Zaryanko and Yevgraf Sorokin at...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Son of Vladimir Makovsky. Studied under Illarion Pryanishnikov, Vasily Polenov and Vladimir Makovsky at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (18...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Son of Yegor Makovsky (1800–1886), younger brother of Konstantin Makovsky, father of Alexander Makovsky. Studied under Sergei Zaryanko and Yevgraf Sorokin at ...
Painter. Father-in-law of Pyotr Konchalovsky, great-grandfather of film directors Andrei Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov. Born in Krasnoyarsk (1848) to a family of Don Cossacks, whose ancestors too...