Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov

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Place: Moscow

Born: 1699

Death: 1761

Biography:

Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov (Russian: Ива́н Я́ковлевич Вишняко́в 1699, Moscow - 1761, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian portrait painter and muralist in the Rococo style. He was briefly apprenticed to be a varnisher, then was sent to the "Канцелярия от строений" (Chancellory of Buildings) in 1727, where he studied under Louis Caravaque, a French port...

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