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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...
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...
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...
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...
Painter, draughtsman. Elder brother of artists Apollinary Goravsky (1833–1900) and Hilary Goravsky (1847–after 1875). Born in the family of impoverished Polish nobleman Hilary Horawski and his wife M...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher, writer. Born in the family of Stefan Igorev, a rural sexton of the Church of St John the Baptist, in the village of Komarovka in Saratov Province (1822). Studied at the...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Matvei Dorogov (1819). Studied at the Mining Institute in St Petersburg (late 1830s) and under Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1841–47)....
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Yefim Ekgorst (Eckhorst) in St Petersburg (1831). Studied under Bogdan Gottfried Willewalde at the Imperial Academy of Arts (mid-1850s–1860). A...
Franco-German painter, graphic artist, photographer. Born in St Petersburg (1809) in the family of French printer Alexandre Pluchart (1777–1827) and his German wife Sophie Wagner (1782–1857). Studied...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the family of Leonty Tyutryumov in Novgorod Province (1821). Graduated from the Noble Regiment as an ensign of the Second Grenadier Artillery Brigade (1840). Tr...