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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