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Amateur artist, professional sailor. Born in the family of Fyodor Schönrock (Shenrok). Retired with the rank of major general. Inspector of students at the Academy of Medicine and Surgery in St Peter...
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...
Draughtsman, caricaturist. Born in the family of Lvov Nevakhovich in Warsaw (1817). Published the Jumble album of caricatures (1846–49) and Magic Lantern (1848). Died at the age of thirty-three in Od...
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, caricaturist, teacher. Born (1802). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1813–24). Awarded a minor silver medal (1820), major silver medal (1822), minor silver ...
Painter, draughtsman. Father of Apollon, Valerian and Leonid Maikov. Born in the family of Apollon Maikov in Moscow (1794). Educated at the Second Military Academy, graduated as an army field officer...
Painter. Born in the family of Alexander Bubnov in Gatchina (1850). Studied under Ivan Kramskoi at the evening classes of the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1863–...
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...
Architect, draughtsman, designer, illustrator. Born in St Petersburg in the family of a physician of French descent called Alexander Hartmann (1834). Raised by the architect Alexander Gemilian after ...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Georgy Beideman in St Petersburg (1826). Studied under Karl Brullov and Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1840s–50s). Awarded a ma...