Stepan Filippovich Galaktionov (russian: Степан Филиппович Галактионов; 6 July 1779,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

4 December 1854, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian

lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

, graphic artist, and

cityscape In the visual arts, a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. It is the urban equivalent of a landscape. ''Townscape'' is ...

painter.

Biography

In 1785, he was admitted to the

Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...

which, at that time, had an elementary school. His teachers included Ignaz Sebastian Klauber,

Mikhail Matveevich Ivanov Mikhail Matveevich Ivanov (Russian: Михаил Матвеевич Иванов ; 1748, Veliky Novgorod - 16 August 1823, St. Petersburg) was a Russian painter, watercolorist, and Academician. Biography His father was a soldier in the Semyo ...

, and Semyon Shchedrin. He graduated in 1800 with a Certificate of the First Degree. In 1806, he was named an honorary Academician. He later became a full Academician for landscape painting, based on his depiction of the

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factory in Peterhof. He was a teacher at the Academy from 1817 until his death. In the 1820s, he was one of the first Russian artists to master lithography. In 1830, he was promoted to Advisor for landscape engraving. The following year, when that title was abolished, he was designated a Professor, Third Degree. In 1850, he was named an Honored Professor. In addition, he was in the service of the hydrographic depot at Naval Headquarters, where he taught the drawing of marine animals, as well as engraving and lithography. In addition to teaching, he created

vignette Vignette may refer to: * Vignette (entertainment), a sketch in a sketch comedy * Vignette (graphic design), decorative designs in books (originally in the form of leaves and vines) to separate sections or chapters * Vignette (literature), short, i ...

s for several

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s and magazines, and provided illustrations for the works of many contemporary authors, such as

Ivan Krylov Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (russian: Ива́н Андре́евич Крыло́в; 13 February 1769 – 21 November 1844) is Russia's best-known fabulist and probably the most epigrammatic of all Russian authors. Formerly a dramatist and journali ...

and

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

. As was common practice at the time, most of his engravings were based on other artists' paintings and drawings, but he also created original works. He was married to the daughter of a wealthy

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. They had three daughters, one of whom (Anna), married the medallist, .

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Biography
from the ''

Russian Biographical Dictionary The ''Russian Biographical Dictionary'' (RBD, russian: Русский биографический словарь) is a Russian-language biographical dictionary published by the Russian Historian Society edited by a collective with Alexander Po ...

'' @ Russian Wikisource * * Mikhail Babenchikov, ''Русская гравюра. С.Ф. Галактионов'', Moscow, 1951
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