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Jacob (Jacques) Wiener
Read more...Belgian engraver, medallist. Elder brother of engravers Léopold Wiener (1823–1891) and Charles Wiener (1832–1887). Born in the family of Jewish merchant Marcus Wiener and his wife Hanna Baruch in the...
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Vital Jean de Groncle
Read more...Belgian painter. Lived and worked as a portraitist in Russia (late 1840s–early 1850s). Academician (1850).
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