Valery Jacoby

Painter, teacher. Elder brother of the revolutionary Pavel Jacoby (1842–1913). Studied at Kazan Grammar School and Kazan University and enlisted in the Simbirsk Home Guard during the Crimean War (1854–55). Studied under Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1856–61). Awarded a minor gold medal (1861) and a major gold medal and the title of first-class artist (1862). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy (1862–68). Academician (1868), professor (1871), board member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1878). Founding member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1870, excluded in 1872), member of the Society of Exhibitions of Works of Art (1876–90). Russian commissar and member of the international jury at the Exposition Universelle in Paris (1878). Taught at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1878–89), where he headed the history painting class (from 1883). Paid regular visits to north Africa and the south of France (from 1880). Died in Nice (1902). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1858). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1858–70, 1884, 1887, 1891), Society of Exhibitions of Works of Art (1876–90), St Petersburg Society of Artists (1894) and the Expositions Universelles in Paris (1867, 1878) and Antwerp (1885).