Karl Gottlieb Wenig

Carl Gottlieb Wenig, russified as Carl Bogdanovich Wenig was a Baltic German painter in the Academical style, active in St. Petersburg during Tsars Alexander II and Alexander III's reigns, known for his history pictures. The elder brother to fellow painter Bogdan Wenig and, alongside the latter, an in-law to the Fabergé family, he served as professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts.