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German jeweller, goldsmith, silversmith. Hallmark: IK or Keibel. Born in the family of Johann Wilhelm Keibel in St Petersburg (1825). Studied under his father (early 1840s). Master of the guild of fo...
Finnish-Swedish jeweller, silversmith. Hallmark: A.S or A•S or Sper or A•SPER in a rectangle. Born in the Finnish municipality of Kirkkonummi near Helsinki (1799). Moved to St Petersburg, where he wo...
German jeweller, goldsmith. Born in the Grand Duchy of Hesse (1812). Qualified as a goldsmith (1845) and opened a workshop on Gorokhovaya Street in St Petersburg (1849). Collaborated with Nicholls & ...
Prussian painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of Carl Piratsky in the Free City of Danzig (c. 1813). Awarded a grant by Tsar Nicholas I and studied under Alexander Gottlob Sauerwe...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Son of German landscape painter Georg Friedrich Schlater (1804–1870). Born in Dorpat (1834). Studied under his father in Dorpat and under Maxim Vorobyov at the Imper...
German theatrical designer, painter, architect, teacher. Born in Regensburg in Bavaria to scene-shifter Adam Roller and opera singer Marianne Rothmeier (1805). Moved with his family to Vienna (1810),...
Italian theatrical designer. Born to Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga and Carlotta Vanini in St Petersburg (1794). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1806–16) and worked under his father at the Imper...
French draughtsman, lithographer. Travelled across Russia, sailing via Le Havre, Hamburg and Lübeck and visiting Kronstadt, St Petersburg, Novgorod, Tver, Moscow, Sergiev Posad, Vladimir, Nizhny Novg...
Swiss painter, engraver. Worked in Paris and Bonneville. Contributed lithographs to Giuseppe Daziaro’s series of views of Moscow and St Petersburg. Lithographed the drawings of Vasily Sadovnikov and ...
French lithographer. Worked in Russia (1840s). Contributed lithographs to The Imperial Hermitage Gallery (1846), Lithographed Etchings of the Frescoes in St Isaac’s Cathedral in St Petersburg (1847) ...