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Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, applied artist, theatrical designer, decorator, illustrator. Elder brother of Apollinary Vasnetsov, grandfather of Andrei Vasnetov, fifth cousin once removed of Yur...
Painter. Born in Tobolsk in the family of a civil servant called Yegor Pushkarev (1821). Studied at the School of the Resurrection in St Petersburg (1833–35) and under Alexei Markov at the Imperial A...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts and granted the right to teach drawing in grammar schools. Taught drawing at Vyatka Grammar School (1851).
German painter, draughtsman, lithographer, teacher. Twin brother of Gerhard von Kügelgen, father of artist Constantin von Kügelgen (1810–1880). Born to Franz Ferdinand Anton von Kügelgen (1727–88) an...
German painter. Twin brother of Carl von Kügelgen. Born to Franz Ferdinand Anton von Kügelgen (1727–88) and Maria Justina Hoegg (1744–1805) in the Palatinate town of Bacharach am Rhein (1772). Attend...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the family of Dmitry Losyev in the town of Bezhetsk in Tver Province (1835). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1850s). Awarded the title of free artist o...
Engraver, painter, draughtsman, illustrator. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a master of the St Petersburg Mint called Yakov Afanasiev (1793). Educated at the Imperial Academy of Arts after th...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Avvakum Naumov in St Petersburg (1840). Studied at the Sunday classes of the St Petersburg School of Drawing (1850s) and at the Imperial Academ...
French painter, draughtsman, lithographer, teacher. Lived in Moscow (from 1772). Nominated to the Imperial Academy of Arts (1808), academician (1809). Painted miniature portraits of Empress Elizabeth...
Engraver, painter, draughtsman, teacher. Brother of the poets Alexei Zhemchuzhnikov (1821–1908), Alexander Zhemchuzhnikov (1826–1896) and Vladimir Zhemchuzhnikov (1830–1884), cousin of the writer Cou...