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Friedrich Heinrich Bagantz

German draughtsman, painter. Born in St Petersburg (1834) in the family of a German clockmaker called Friedrich Gotthard Bagantz (1802–1889), who moved to St Petersburg during the reign of Tsar Alexa...

Carl Adolf Seipel

German jeweller, silversmith. Hallmark: CAS in a rectangle with bevelled edges. Made silverware in the Second Rococo style in St Petersburg (1846–76), where he had a workshop and twenty apprentices.

Julius Eduard Keibel

German jeweller, goldsmith, silversmith. Hallmark: IK or Keibel. Born in the family of Johann Wilhelm Keibel in St Petersburg (1825). Studied under his father (early 1840s). Master of the guild of fo...

Samuel Arndt

German jeweller, goldsmith. Born in the Grand Duchy of Hesse (1812). Qualified as a goldsmith (1845) and opened a workshop on Gorokhovaya Street in St Petersburg (1849). Collaborated with Nicholls & ...

Carl Piratsky

Prussian painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of Carl Piratsky in the Free City of Danzig (c. 1813). Awarded a grant by Tsar Nicholas I and studied under Alexander Gottlob Sauerwe...

Alexander Georg Schlater

Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Son of German landscape painter Georg Friedrich Schlater (1804–1870). Born in Dorpat (1834). Studied under his father in Dorpat and under Maxim Vorobyov at the Imper...

Andreas Roller

German theatrical designer, painter, architect, teacher. Born in Regensburg in Bavaria to scene-shifter Adam Roller and opera singer Marianne Rothmeier (1805). Moved with his family to Vienna (1810),...

Carl Kollmann

Painter, draughtsman, engraver. Studied at the Königliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. Moved to St Petersburg to work with his uncle Ignaz Sebastian Klauber (1803). Taught drawing and lit...

Adolf Jebens

German painter, draughtsman, teacher. Studied at the Königlich Preussische Akademie der Künste in Berlin and under Paul Delaroche in Paris (1839–40). Visited Italy (1841) and Danzig (1842). Drew port...

Heinrich Gube

German medallist, coin engraver. Son of the glass-cutter Ignaz Gube. Studied in Vienna and worked for Gottfried Bernhard Loos in Berlin. Elected a member of the Königlich Preussische Akademie der Kün...

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