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Painter, theatrical designer, teacher. Grandson of Baron Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, son of Major Alexander Clodt von Jürgensburg, nephew of Baron Mikhail Petrovich Clodt von Jürgensburg, nephew onc...
Polish painter, teacher. Studied under Wojciech Gerson at the Warsaw Drawing Class (1877–78), under Pavel Chistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1879–85) and at Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant’s s...
Painter, teacher. Studied at the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Munich (1860s) and the Imperial Academy of Arts (1868–70). Awarded a minor medal (1872) and the title of third-class artist (1874). ...
Painter. Son of the artist Yegor Makovsky (1800–1886), elder brother of Vladimir Makovsky, father of art critic Sergei Makovsky (1877–1962). Studied under Michele Scotti, Apollon Mokritsky and Sergei...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Father of Boris Pasternak. Born Yitzhok-Leib Pasternak to the owner of a Jewish guesthouse in Odessa (1862). Studied at the Odessa School of Drawing (18...
Painter, teacher. Born Abram Pyrikov to a poor peasant family in the remote village of Yegorovo in Ryazan Province (1862). Studied under Vasily Perov, Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Polenov, Illarion Pryani...
Painter, graphic artist. Worked in commerce and served on the Brest Railway Line (early 1890s). Took up drawing and unsuccessfully attempted to enrol at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and A...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Brother of the artist Elena Polenova. Studied under Pavel Chistyakov and Fyodor Jordan (1859–60) and Timoleon Carl von Neff (1863–71) at the Imp...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, writer, teacher. Younger brother of Sergei Korovin. Born in Moscow in the family of an Old Believer merchant called Alexei Korovin (1861). Studied at the...