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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...
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...
Belgian engraver, medallist. Elder brother of engravers Léopold Wiener (1823–1891) and Charles Wiener (1832–1887). Born in the family of Jewish merchant Marcus Wiener and his wife Hanna Baruch in the...
Austrian painter. Born in the town of Nikolsburg (now Mikulov in the Czech Republic) in the Austrian Empire (1819). Studied under Joseph Anton Mesmer and Thomas Ender at the Vienna Academy of Arts. V...
French painter, lithographer. Born in Geneva (1813). Studied under Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre (inventor of the daguerreotype) in Paris. Contributed works to A Painterly and Archaeological Journey a...
German draughtsman, painter. Born in St Petersburg (1834) in the family of a German clockmaker called Friedrich Gotthard Bagantz (1802–1889), who moved to St Petersburg during the reign of Tsar Alexa...
Baltic German jeweller, goldsmith, silversmith. Father of Peter Carl Fabergé, uncle of Carl Wenig. Descended from a French Huguenot called Jean-Baptiste Fabry (derived from the Latin word faber, mean...
British jewellers, goldsmiths, silversmiths, merchants, industrialists. Hallmarks: N•P, NP, KA, PK N&P, N&P MAG•ANG, N:P or N.P. Originally founded by John Pickersgill on the corner of 16 Nevsky Pros...
Swedish jeweller, goldsmith, silversmith. Son-in-law of Andreas Römpler, elder brother of Henrik Conrad Bolin, uncle of Wilhelm James Bolin. Born in Stockholm (1805) in the family of Swedish sea capt...
German jeweller, silversmith. Hallmark: CAS in a rectangle with bevelled edges. Made silverware in the Second Rococo style in St Petersburg (1846–76), where he had a workshop and twenty apprentices.