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Painter, engraver, draughtsman, decorator, teacher. Son of painter Grigory Adolsky and elder brother of painter Ivan-Menshoi Adolsky. Commissioned to paint portraits of Peter the Great and Prince Ale...
Painter. Son of Vasily Moshkov. Studied under Pyotr Ivanovich Sokolov and Ivan Akimov at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Academician of history painting (1797). Painted icons for the St Sophia Cathedra...
German painter, copier, restorer, collector, dealer. Born in the family of German portraitist Georg Friedrich Pfandzelt in the Free Imperial City of Ulm (1716). Studied painting under his father and ...
Engraver, painter, illustrator. Son of the icon-painter Fyodor Zubov (before 1647–1689), younger brother of Ivan Zubov. Studied icon-painting under his father (1695–98) and engraving under Adriaan Sc...
Engraver, illustrator. Son of the icon-painter Fyodor Zubov (before 1647–1689), elder brother of Alexei Zubov. Studied icon-painting under his father (until 1689) and engraving under Adriaan Schooneb...
French painter, graphic artist, decorator, applied artist, teacher. Member of the third generation of a family of artists from Gascony who decorated ships in Marseille and Toulon. Worked at the Arsen...
Painter, decorator. Born in St Petersburg to a court scribe from Käkisalmi district in Karelia (1702). Awarded a fellowship by Peter the Great to train in Holland and Flanders (1716). Studied under A...
German painter, theatrical designer, decorator. Grandson of a civil engineer working for King Louis XIV of France, who fled to Dresden and assumed the surname of Parisien, which later became Barisien...
Dutch engraver, collector. Son of the Dutch painter and art historian Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719). Born in Dordrecht (1698) and moved with his family to Amsterdam (1710). Studied engraving under his...
German engraver, draughtsman, teacher. Accompanied the Russian mission of Lev Izmailov to China, travelling via Lake Baikal and through the Gobi Desert to Peking (1719–20). Published an account of th...