Identity:
He was Whistler's drawing master in St Petersburg, and was himself a pupil and assistant of Bryullov.
Life:
He added a sketch in 1847 to Whistler's St Petersburg Sketchbook, (M.7, p. 7). Whistler was clearly fond of him, and sent him a box of paints when he went to live in England.
Bibliography:
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995.