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Sculptor, medallist, draughtsman, engraver, painter, illustrator, writer, teacher. Born in St Petersburg to Count Pyotr Tolstoy and Elisabeth Barbot de Marny (1783). Studied at the Jesuit College in ...
Painter. Son of the writer Ivan Pnin (1773–1805). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1809–24). Full member of the Free Society of Lovers of the Letters, Sciences and Arts (1802). Awarded a mino...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born as a serf of Count Anton von Münnich in the village of Karpovka in Novgorod Province (1776). Belonged to Count Irakly Morkov after he married Count von Münnich’s y...
Engraver, illustrator, teacher. Illegitimate son of the writer Mikhail Muravyov and a serf woman who was given in marriage to Muravyov’s chamberlain Ivan Utkin. Born in the house of his grandfather N...
Estonian engraver, illustrator, painter. Born in the family of a Swedish stonemason in the town of Wesenberg (now Rakvere) in Estonia (1800). Moved to St Petersburg and enrolled at the Imperial Acade...
Swiss engraver, painter. Son of Gabriel I Ludwig Lory. Worked with his father for thirteen years in an identical manner, making the works of both artists indiscernible, as they signed them with the s...
Swiss engraver, painter. Son of a coachman, father of Matthias Gabriel Lory. Studied under Johann Ludwig Aberli and Caspar Wolf. Visited Geneva and St Gallen. Returned to Berne, where he coloured the...
Painter. Studied miniature painting at the Académie de Saint-Luc in Paris (1766–73). Painter to Queen Marie Antoinette (1776), member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (1788). Fled t...
Italian painter, lithographer, restorer, curator. Born in the family of Giovanni Brioschi in Florence (1786). Studied history painting under Pietro Benvenuti at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florenc...
Italian painter, draughtsman. Studied at the Königlich-Preussische Akademie der Künste und mechanischen Wissenschaften in Berlin (from 1787). Worked in Vienna (1795) and Glogau (1796–97), where he de...