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Gsell [Gesell; Xell; Xsell], Georg
(b St Gall, 28 Jan 1673; d St Petersburg, 22 Nov 1740). Swiss painter. He trained in Vienna from 1690 to 1695 with the painter Anton Schoonjans (1655–1726). He lived in St Gall from 1697 to 1704. He moved subsequently to Amsterdam, where Tsar Peter I noticed him during his visit to the Netherlands in 1717 and took him into his service, initially as director of his galleries. From 1727 Gsell held classes in painting and drawing at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, and illustrated various Academy publications. He painted a series of icons for the cathedral of SS Peter and Paul in St Petersburg (1730–32) as well as portraits, genre scenes, still-lifes, and religious and mythological subjects, such as Venus and Cupid (1722; Solothurn, Kstmus.). Most of his works are in Russia.
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