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Alexander Vishnyakov
Painter. Son of Ivan Vishnyakov. Mentioned at the age of nine and ten in the confessional inventories of the Church of the Nativity of Christ in the Peski district of St Petersburg (1760–61). Studied under his father and Ivan Belsky. Painted genre scenes (late 1760s–early 1770s).