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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...
Swedish jeweller, silversmith, goldsmith. Younger brother of Carl Edvard Bolin, father of Wilhelm James Bolin. Born in Stockholm (1818) in the family of Swedish sea captain and merchant Jonas Wilhelm...
Swedish-Finnish jeweller, goldsmith, silversmith. Hallmark: OP in an oval. Born in the family of a Swedish tailor called Johan Gustaf Pihl (1822–?) and his wife Eva Lovisa Alenius (1827–?) in the vil...
German jeweller, silversmith, bronzesmith. Hallmark: F.E.H in a rectangle. Repaired bronzeware at the workshop in the Winter Palace, joined the crown workshop of silversmiths and opened his own works...
Swedish-Finnish jeweller, goldsmith, silversmith. Hallmark: EK or ?.?. Born in the family of a Swedish labourer called Karl Gustaf Kollin and his wife Eva Kristina Zachrisdotter at Brödtorp manor in ...
Finnish jeweller, silversmith. Hallmark: S•W in a circle or S.W. Born in the Finnish municipality of Säkkijärvi (now Kondratievo in Leningrad Region) near the town of Vyborg on the Gulf of Finland (1...
German jeweller, goldsmith, silversmith. Hallmark: AK or Keibel. Born in the family of Julius Eduard Keibel in St Petersburg (1854). Studied under his father (1874–82) and inherited his workshop at 3...