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Italian painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in Milan (1814). Studied under Giovanni Migliara at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, where he won a prize for perspective painting (1834). Pa...
Italian painter. Born in Venice (1808). Studied under Teodoro Mattini at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. Married Antonietta, daughter of Bartolomeo Ferrari (1831). Decorated churches in Venice...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Son of Giovanni Battista Scotti, an Italian decorative artist invited to Russia by Giacomo Quarenghi (1780s). Born in St Petersburg and christened at the Roman Catholic...
Painter, teacher. Son of an emancipated serf called Konstantin Zaryanko. Studied under Alexei Venetsianov and Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1830s), where he was awarded the title of...
Painter, teacher. Studied under Karl Brullov and Alexander Gottlob Sauerweid at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1838–42). Foreign fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1842–44). Painted battle painti...
Painter, teacher. Cousin of Peter Carl Fabergé. Born in Reval in Estonia (1830) in the family of Gottlieb Friedrich Wenig (music teacher, organist and violinist at St Nicholas’s Church in Reval) and ...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born at Mödders in Estonia (1805). Illegitimate son of Heinrich Zoege von Manteuffel (uncle of Gerhard von Kügelgen and Carl von Kügelgen ) and Félicité Neff (French go...
Painter, teacher. Born in Novgorod to Taras Markov, a watchmaker and graduate of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1802). Studied under Alexei Yegorov, Vasily Shebuyev and Andrei Ivanov at the Imperial A...
Painter, teacher. Studied under an icon-painter from Yaroslavl and decorated churches (1840). Painted a picture of Peter the Great spotting a talented artist (Andrei Matveyev), which was shown to Tsa...
Painter, engraver, teacher. Attended drawing classes (1811–18) and studied history painting under Vasily Shebuyev (1816–18) at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Awarded minor and major silver medals (181...