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Orest Kiprensky

Painter, draughtsman. Born on the Nezhinskaya estate in the village of Nezhnovo halfway between St Petersburg and Narva (1782). Illegitimate son of landowner Alexei Dyakonov and a serf woman called A...

Jacob Janenko

Painter, copyist. Son of Theodosios Janenko. Studied under Stepan Schukin and Alexander Warnek at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1809–21), where he became a close friend of Karl Brullov. Awarded a min...

Theodosios Janenko

Painter. Father of Jacob Janenko. Signed his early works in Greek and possibly came to St Petersburg with Eugenios Voulgaris from Greece or Bulgaria (1771). Studied under Gavriil Kozlov at the Imperi...

Mikhail Terebenyov

Painter, miniaturist, restorer, teacher. Son of wooden sculptor Ivan Terebenyov, brother of Ivan Terebenyov, uncle of Alexander Terebenyov. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1803–15). Awarded ...

Ivan Terebenyov

Sculptor, draughtsman, engraver, caricaturist, teacher. Son of wooden sculptor Ivan Terebenyov, brother of Mikhail Terebenyov, father of Alexander Terebenyov. Studied under Mikhail Kozlovsky at the I...

Afinogen Shustov

Painter, draughtsman, illustrator. Born in Yaroslavl in the family of Loggin Shustov, an icon-painter for the Holy Synod (1786). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1795–1806). Awarded a minor s...

Carl Magnus Wittberg

Architect, painter, draughtsman. Son of a Swedish painter called Lorentz Wittberg (1753–1834), who moved to Reval (1773), where he taught German and married a widow called Anna-Elisabeth Spaetter (17...

Vladimir Moshkov

Painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Born in Moscow to a merchant called Ivan Moshkov (1792). Studied battle painting under Mikhail Ivanov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1801–12). Awarded a minor si...

Fyodor Matveyev

Painter. Born in St Petersburg to a member of the Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment called Mikhail Matveyev (1758). Studied under Semyon Schedrin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1764–78), graduating ...

Count Jacob de Balmaine

Amateur draughtsman, painter, illustrator, writer. Descended from the Ramsays of Balmain in Kincardineshire in Scotland, who followed King James II into exile in France (1689). Great-grandson of Coun...

Early 19th Century

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