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Prokof’yev, Ivan (Prokof’yevich)
(b St Petersburg, 5 Feb 1758; d St Petersburg, 22 Feb 1828). Russian sculptor and draughtsman. Between c. 1764 and 1779 he studied at the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg under Nicolas-François Gillet and Fyodor Gordeyev. Among his early works is a relief Ham’s Damnation (plaster, 1778; St Petersburg, Acad. A., Mus.). From 1779 to 1784 he worked in Paris in the studio of Pierre Julien and then returned to St Petersburg, where he began teaching. From 1800 he was a professor at the Academy, and in 1819 he became Senior Professor.
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