19th Century

Leon Wyczółkowski

Polish painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Born in the family of glass merchant Mateusz Wyczółkowski and Antonina Falińska in the village of Huta Miastkowska near Garwolin in the kingdom of Pola...

Nikolai Lomtev

Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of merchant called Pyotr Lomtev in Rostov (1816). Studied under Fidelio Bruni at the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1837, occasional student). Went to Ital...

Nikolai von Schilder

Painter, graphic artist. Born in Kharkiv (1828) in the family of a retired Baltic German cornet called Otto Gustav von Schilder (1789–1848) and his wife Wilhelmine Charlotte Friederike von Schmidt (1...

Khariton Platonov

Painter, draughtsman, teacher, restorer. Born in the family of a peasant called Platon Platonov in the village of Vorona in Yaroslavl Province (1841). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1859–70...

Ekaterina Khilkova

Painter, draughtswoman, teacher. Born in the family of Nikolai Khilkov in Tambov (1827). Studied at the St Petersburg School of Drawing for Extern Students (1852–56). Awarded minor silver medals (185...

Carl Eduard Hefftler

Estonian painter, graphic artist, applied artist, architect. Born in the family of a Baltic German dentist called Eduard Ludwig Hefftler and his wife Marie Louise Haase in the city of Reval (now Tall...

Vladimir Bondarenko

Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Arkhip Bondarenko in the Ukraine (1866). Studied under Kyriakos Kostandi at Odessa School of Drawing (1880s), under Ivan Shishkin and Arkhip Kuinji at t...

Georg Dericker

Swedish engraver. Relative of Carl Christian Philipp Reichel. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a Swedish mechanical master called Wilhelm Dericker (1821?). Engraved clichés for banknotes at the...

Sergei Chirikov

Draughtsman, painter, writer, teacher. Born in the family of a palace stoker called Gavrila Chirikov in St Petersburg (1776). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1782–94). Worked as a naval drau...

Alexander Yegornov

Painter, graphic artist. Elder brother of artist Sergei Yegornov (1860–1920). Born in the family of Semyon Yegornov in Moscow (1858). Studied landscape painting under Baron Mikhail Konstantinovich Cl...

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