June 16] 1855[3], in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian painter, State Councilor and Rector at the Imperial Academy of Arts.

[4] His father was of noble lineage and served as the ranking custodian of materiels at the Admiralty Board.

In 1803, he was sent on a fellowship to study in Rome,[5] where he practiced copying the old masters and made anatomical drawings from observing dissections.

Among those who studied under him at the Academy, one may name Karl Briullov, Alexander Ivanov, Fyodor Bruni and Pyotr Basin.

[4] In addition to his responsibilities there, he was appointed Director of the Imperial Tapestry Manufactory in 1831,[5] having earlier been made a Court Painter in 1823, in which capacity he oversaw the creation of the church canopy at Tsarskoye Selo.