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Yevgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray (Russian: Евгений Александрович Лансере) was a 19th-century Russian sculptor of French origin. He is known as an animalist. Lanceray throughout his career depicted horses, including creating subjects on a historical theme. At the same time he was professionally engaged in breeding horses.
All in all Lanceray created about 400 sculptures. His works are represented in a number of museums — in particular, in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, etc.
The son of Yevgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray — Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lanceray — became a famous Russian and Soviet painter.
Otto Grashof was a German painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a draftsman, engraver, and portrait painter. He also did historical painting, battle-painting, animal studies, and landscape art. Grashof is considered one of the founders of Chilean painting.
Grashof went to St. Petersburg in 1838, where he carried out portrait commissions for the aristocracy, and some of his works ended up in the collection of Emperor Nicholas I. Later he visited Chile as well as Brazil. He held the titles of "painter to the Russian emperor and Brazilian court painter."