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  • Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis

    French engraver. Younger brother of the engraver Charles Dupuis (1685–1742). Studied under Gaspard Duchange, whose daughter he later married (1737). Member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sc...

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  • Gérard de la Barthe

    French artist active in the second half of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Studied under Joseph-Marie Vien. Worked in Russia (1787–1810). Painted a series of views of Moscow and ...

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  • Benjamin Patersson

    Swedish painter, engraver. Born to the family of a customs scribe in Varberg (1748). Studied under S. Frick in Gothenburg, where he was a member of the Society of Painters. Lived and worked in Riga (...

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  • John Augustus Atkinson

    English painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator. Moved to St Petersburg (1784) with his uncle, the engraver James Walker, who was invited to Russia by Catherine the Great. Painted Russian history...

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  • Salvatore Tonci

    Italian painter, draughtsman, poet, musician, singer. Studied art in Rome and served as a guardsman in Naples. Arrived in St Petersburg in the company of the deposed King Stanislaw II August Poniatow...

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  • Antonio Vighi

    Italian painter, draughtsman. Member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Invited to Russia by Paul I to decorate St Michael’s Castle (1799). Academician (1806). Worked with the architect Carlo Ross...

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  • Anthelme-François Lagrenée

    French painter, miniaturist. Son of Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée. Studied under François-André Vincent. Contributed to the Paris Salon (1799–1831). Lived and worked in Russia (1817–25).

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  • Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée

    French painter, teacher. Father of Anthelme-François Lagrenée. Known as Lagrenée l'aîné, to distinguish him from his younger brother, Jean-Jacques Lagrenée. Studied under Carlo Vanloo and won the Pri...

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  • Pietro Antonio de Rotari

    Italian painter, engraver, teacher. Studied under Robert van Auden Aerd and Antonio Balestra in Verona (1723–25), Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and Johan Richter in Venice (1725–27), Francesco Trevisan...

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  • Johann Friedrich Grooth

    German painter, teacher. Youngest son of Johann Christoph Grooth (1688–1764), court painter to the duke of Württemberg and curator of the royal picture gallery in Stuttgart. Younger brother of Georg ...

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