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Russian Artists
19th Century
Early 19th Century
Portraitist
Painter, lithographer. Born in the family of Alexei Vasilyevsky (1794). Studied portraiture under Feodosy Schedrin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1803–16). Awarded a minor silver medal (1813) and a...
Draughtsman, lithographer, painter. Born in the family of sculptor Johann Georg Österreich (1790). Studied sculpture at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1801–12). Drew a series of portraits of Russian w...
Painter, teacher. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a retired sergeant of the Vyatka Infantry Regiment called Yeremei Yakovlev (1787). Studied under Stepan Schukin at the Imperial Academy of Art...