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  • Yegor Schreider

    Painter, teacher. Studied at the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Munich (1860s) and the Imperial Academy of Arts (1868–70). Awarded a minor medal (1872) and the title of third-class artist (1874). ...

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  • Illarion Pryanishnikov

    Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of a poor merchant in the village of Timoshevo in Kaluga Province (1840). Studied under Sergei Zaryanko and Yevgraf Sorokin at...

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  • Alexander Makovsky

    Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Son of Vladimir Makovsky. Studied under Illarion Pryanishnikov, Vasily Polenov and Vladimir Makovsky at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (18...

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  • Luigi Premazzi

    Italian painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in Milan (1814). Studied under Giovanni Migliara at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, where he won a prize for perspective painting (1834). Pa...

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  • Cosroe Dusi

    Italian painter. Born in Venice (1808). Studied under Teodoro Mattini at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. Married Antonietta, daughter of Bartolomeo Ferrari (1831). Decorated churches in Venice...

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  • Michele Scotti

    Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Son of Giovanni Battista Scotti, an Italian decorative artist invited to Russia by Giacomo Quarenghi (1780s). Born in St Petersburg and christened at the Roman Catholic...

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  • Sergei Zaryanko

    Painter, teacher. Son of an emancipated serf called Konstantin Zaryanko. Studied under Alexei Venetsianov and Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1830s), where he was awarded the title of...

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  • Vladimir Makovsky

    Painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Son of Yegor Makovsky (1800–1886), younger brother of Konstantin Makovsky, father of Alexander Makovsky. Studied under Sergei Zaryanko and Yevgraf Sorokin at ...

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  • Konstantin Makovsky

    Painter. Son of the artist Yegor Makovsky (1800–1886), elder brother of Vladimir Makovsky, father of art critic Sergei Makovsky (1877–1962). Studied under Michele Scotti, Apollon Mokritsky and Sergei...

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  • Bogdan Gottfried Willewalde

    Painter, teacher. Studied under Karl Brullov and Alexander Gottlob Sauerweid at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1838–42). Foreign fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1842–44). Painted battle painti...

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