Neoclassical

Fedot Shubin

Sculptor, draughtsman, painter, teacher. Born in the Pomor fishing village of Tyuchkovskaya on the Northern Dvina in the family of a state (free) peasant called Ivan Shubnoi, who allegedly taught Mik...

Mikhail Kozlovsky

Sculptor, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a naval musician called Ivan Kozlovsky (1753). Studied under Nicolas-François Gillet and Anton Losenko at the Imperial...

Yevstafy Moshkov

Painter. Son of Vasily Moshkov. Studied under Pyotr Ivanovich Sokolov and Ivan Akimov at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Academician of history painting (1797). Painted icons for the St Sophia Cathedra...

Stepan Schukin

Painter, teacher. Born in the family of sergeant Semyon Petrov in Moscow (1762). Educated at the Foundling Hospital in Moscow under the surname of Semyonov, which he later changed to Schukin (1782). ...

Vladimir Borovikovsky

Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in Myrhorod to a Cossack icon-painter called Luka Borovyk (1757). Studied painting under his father and served in the same Cossack regiment as his father and broth...

Feodosy Schedrin

Sculptor, teacher. Younger brother of Semyon Schedrin, father of Sylvester Schedrin. Son of a soldier in the Preobrazhensky Regiment. Studied sculpture under Nicolas-François Gillet at the Imperial A...

Semyon Schedrin

Painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Elder brother of Feodosy Schedrin, uncle of Sylvester Schedrin. Son of a soldier in the Preobrazhensky Regiment. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1759...

Fyodor Alexeyev

Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Founding father of the Russian school of veduta painting often known as the “Russian Canaletto.” Son of a watchman at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Studied ornamental s...

Nikolai Argunov

Painter. Son of Ivan Argunov. Studied art under his father and copied West European paintings in the Hermitage. Freed from serfdom (1816). Academician (1818). Painted miniature portraits.

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