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Alexander Vasilyevsky
Born:
1794
Died:
after 1849
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 major silver medal and the title of first-class artist (1816). Painted and lithographed portraits of contemporaries. Died in an unknown location (after 1849).
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