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  • Jean Gerin

    French painter, draughtsman, lithographer, teacher. Lived in Moscow (from 1772). Nominated to the Imperial Academy of Arts (1808), academician (1809). Painted miniature portraits of Empress Elizabeth...

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  • Jean-Laurent Mosnier

    Painter. Studied miniature painting at the Académie de Saint-Luc in Paris (1766–73). Painter to Queen Marie Antoinette (1776), member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (1788). Fled t...

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  • Louis Saint-Aubin

    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).

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  • Samuel (Solomon) Chiflard

    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...

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  • Paul Barbier

    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...

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  • Michel-François Damame-Demartrais

    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...

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  • Auguste-Joseph Desarnod

    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...

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