Stepan Filippovich Galaktionov (; 6 July 1779,

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4 December 1854, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian

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, graphic artist, and

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painter.

Biography

In 1785, he was admitted to the

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

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

Semyon Shchedrin Semyon Fyodorovich Shchedrin (1745–1804) was a Russian landscape painter, the uncle and mentor of Sylvester Shchedrin. Member of the Imperial Academy of Arts. Biography He was born in St. Petersburg into the family of a life guard. In 1 ...

. 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

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s for several

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

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and

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. 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

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, .

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Russian Biographical Dictionary The ''Russian Biographical Dictionary'' (''RBD''; ) is a Russian-language biographical dictionary published by the Imperial Russian Historical Society and edited by a collective with Alexander Polovtsov as the editor-in-chief An editor-in-c ...

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