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French draughtsman, engraver. Active in the early nineteenth century. Visited Russia (c. 1812), where he drew a series of portraits of the heroes of the Patriotic War (1812).
Engraver, draughtsman, painter, teacher. Studied painting under Mikhail Ivanov and Semyon Schedrin (1785–99) and engraving under Sergei Ivanov and Ignaz Sebastian Klauber (1799–1800) at the Imperial ...
Italian theatrical designer. Father of the architect Geronimo Corsini (1808–1876). Studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna. Moved to St Petersburg (1802), where he worked for the Imperial T...
French painter, draughtsman, engraver. Worked at the Imperial Porcelain Factory (1808–13) and General Headquarters (1822–28). Took up lithography (1816). Collaborated with Karl Friedrich Sabbath on t...
German painter, draughtsman, engraver, decorator. Moved to St Petersburg (1810), where he worked as an actor and singer (from 1810) and painted sets (from 1815) at the Deutsches Theater. Collaborated...
French painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Lived in London (1792–95) and visited Russia (1796–98). Worked in Russia (until 1828), where he published an album of drawings now in the department of priv...
French draughtsman, engraver, painter. Studied painting under Jacques-Louis David in Paris. Worked in Moscow and St Petersburg (1792–1805), where he drew views of Russian towns and scenes from Russia...
French painter, engraver. Studied under Antoine-Jean Gros in Paris. Joined the French army, but was injured and captured by Russian forces during the Patriotic War (1812). Decided to remain in Russia...
Italian painter, theatrical designer, architect. Studied under Antonio Canova and worked as a theatrical decorator in Modena (1770–1805). Sentenced to death for resisting the Napoleonic invasion, but...
Polish draughtsman, lithographer, painter, illustrator. Born to the family of an inn-keeper in Warsaw (1777). Studied under Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, Marcello Bacciarelli, Bartolomeo Folli...