Ernst Friedrich von Liphart
1847
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1932
Russian art historian of Baltic German origin (1847-1932)
Baron Ernst Friedrich von Liphart (1847–1932), also known by his Russian name Ernst Karlovich Lipgart, and also referred to in English as Earnest Lipgart, was a painter, a noted art expert and art collector from what is now Tartu in Estonia. After living for a time in Florence, he moved to France and then to Russia, where he was a curator at the Hermitage Museum.