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Painter. Born to a family of Baltic Germans in Reval (1802). Worked as an assistant to George Dawe, helping him to paint the portraits for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace (1822–28). Studied ...
English painter, draughtsman, engraver. Brother-in-law of George Dawe. Served as an apprentice under Henry Meyer and as an assistant to William Thomas Fry (1813–17). Worked independently as a stipple...
English painter, draughtsman. Brother-in-law of Thomas Wright. Son of the engraver Philip Dawe, who worked with William Hogarth and Joseph Mallord William Turner. Studied engraving under his father a...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Son of Georg Dietrich Warnik, a furniture and cabinet maker from Danzig, who later changed his surname to Warnek (1833). Studied under Stepan Schukin and Dmit...
Sculptor, teacher. Son of a Swedish estate manager in Estonia (1787). Studied under Ivan Martos at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1795–1808). Awarded a minor silver medal (1803), major silver medal (1...
Painter. Son of Feodosy Schedrin, nephew of Semyon Schedrin. Studied landscape painting under Fyodor Alexeyev, Mikhail Ivanov and Jean-François Thomas de Thomon at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1800–...
Painter, teacher. Born in St Petersburg to Johann von Rabus, a German tutor at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1800). Studied under Mikhail Ivanov and Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (18...
Sculptor, teacher. Father-in-law of Alexei Yegorov. Studied under Nicolas-François Gillet and Louis Rolland at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1764–73). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Rome (...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Found by Cossacks in the Kalmyk steppe and taken to the Foundling Hospital in Moscow (1781). Studied under Ivan Akimov and Grigory Ugryumov at the Imperial Academy of A...
Painter, graphic artist, engraver, illustrator, ceramist. Son of Friedrich Gottlieb Timm (mayor of Riga) and brother of Emilija Timm (briefly wife of Karl Brullov ). Studied battle painting under Ale...