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French painter, draughtsman, engraver. Son of the German pianist and composer Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner (1766–1839), nephew of the composer Josef Alois Ladurner (1769–1851). Studied under Hor...
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Son of French customs official Victor Perrot. Studied at naval college in Brest and under Théodore Gudin in Paris. Published more than three-hundred lithographed v...
Painter, draughtsman. Serf of Princess Natalia Golitsyna, who was granted his freedom after her death (1837). Painted a fifty-foot panorama of Nevsky Prospekt for local publisher André Prévost (1830–...
German painter, draughtsman, teacher. Studied at the Königlich Preussische Akademie der Künste in Berlin and under Paul Delaroche in Paris (1839–40). Visited Italy (1841) and Danzig (1842). Drew port...
Belgian painter. Lived and worked as a portraitist in Russia (late 1840s–early 1850s). Academician (1850).
German medallist, coin engraver. Son of the glass-cutter Ignaz Gube. Studied in Vienna and worked for Gottfried Bernhard Loos in Berlin. Elected a member of the Königlich Preussische Akademie der Kün...
Austrian painter, engraver. Studied sculpture and painting in childhood and took private lessons from Friedrich Rottmann and Jakob Wilhelm Roux while he was a student at Heidelberg University. Studie...
French painter, draughtsman. Studied under Achille-Etna Michallon at the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (early 1820s). Worked in Russia (1835–73), where he witnessed the fire at the Winter Palace (...
Painter, draughtsman, architect, illustrator, writer. Son of the Russian diplomat Prince Grigory Gagarin (1782–1837) and Ekaterina Soimonova (1790–1873). Born in St Petersburg (1810). Lived in Italy ...
Amateur artist, traveller, writer. Son of Prince Dmitry Saltykov (1767–1826) and Anna Leontieva (1776–1810). Educated at home. Joined the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as a diplomat ...