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Painter, teacher. Elder brother of the revolutionary Pavel Jacoby (1842–1913). Studied at Kazan Grammar School and Kazan University and enlisted in the Simbirsk Home Guard during the Crimean War (185...
Painter, teacher. Born to German parents in Dorpat (now Tartu) in Estonia (1850). Studied under Constantin von Kügelgen in Dorpat (1866–67) and under Sokrat Vorobyov and Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich...
Painter, graphic artist. Father of Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz. Graduated from the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Berlin (1854) and moved to St Petersburg (1857), where he painted commissions for th...
Engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, teacher. Added the epithet “Kavkazsky” (“of the Caucasus”) to his surname to distinguish himself from other artists called Dmitriyev. Studied engraving under Fyodo...
Polish painter, teacher. Studied under Wojciech Gerson at the Warsaw Drawing Class (1877–78), under Pavel Chistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1879–85) and at Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant’s s...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Son of Felix Lagorio (1781–1857), vice-consul of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in Theodosia (1826). Studied under Hovhannes Aivazovsky in Theodosia (1839–40) and unde...
Painter, teacher. Studied at the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Munich (1860s) and the Imperial Academy of Arts (1868–70). Awarded a minor medal (1872) and the title of third-class artist (1874). ...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of a poor merchant in the village of Timoshevo in Kaluga Province (1840). Studied under Sergei Zaryanko and Yevgraf Sorokin at...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Son of Vladimir Makovsky. Studied under Illarion Pryanishnikov, Vasily Polenov and Vladimir Makovsky at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (18...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Son of Yegor Makovsky (1800–1886), younger brother of Konstantin Makovsky, father of Alexander Makovsky. Studied under Sergei Zaryanko and Yevgraf Sorokin at ...