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Carl Christian Philipp Reichel

German painter, draughtsman, engraver. Relative of Georg Dericker. Younger brother of medallist and miniaturist Johann Jacob Reichel (1778–1856), elder brother of engineer Casimir Reichel (1797–1870)...

Alexander Brullov

Architect, painter, draughtsman, lithographer, illustrator, applied artist, teacher. Elder brother of Karl Brullov, half-brother of Fyodor Brullov, brother-in-law of Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov. Great-...

Orest Kiprensky

Painter, draughtsman. Born on the Nezhinskaya estate in the village of Nezhnovo halfway between St Petersburg and Narva (1782). Illegitimate son of landowner Alexei Dyakonov and a serf woman called A...

Jacob Janenko

Painter, copyist. Son of Theodosios Janenko. Studied under Stepan Schukin and Alexander Warnek at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1809–21), where he became a close friend of Karl Brullov. Awarded a min...

Theodosios Janenko

Painter. Father of Jacob Janenko. Signed his early works in Greek and possibly came to St Petersburg with Eugenios Voulgaris from Greece or Bulgaria (1771). Studied under Gavriil Kozlov at the Imperi...

Carl Magnus Wittberg

Architect, painter, draughtsman. Son of a Swedish painter called Lorentz Wittberg (1753–1834), who moved to Reval (1773), where he taught German and married a widow called Anna-Elisabeth Spaetter (17...

Vladimir Moshkov

Painter, draughtsman, lithographer. Born in Moscow to a merchant called Ivan Moshkov (1792). Studied battle painting under Mikhail Ivanov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1801–12). Awarded a minor si...

Count Jacob de Balmaine

Amateur draughtsman, painter, illustrator, writer. Descended from the Ramsays of Balmain in Kincardineshire in Scotland, who followed King James II into exile in France (1689). Great-grandson of Coun...

Pyotr Pnin

Painter. Son of the writer Ivan Pnin (1773–1805). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1809–24). Full member of the Free Society of Lovers of the Letters, Sciences and Arts (1802). Awarded a mino...

Vasily Tropinin

Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born as a serf of Count Anton von Münnich in the village of Karpovka in Novgorod Province (1776). Belonged to Count Irakly Morkov after he married Count von Münnich’s y...

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