Painter-landscape painter, pupil of gentleman of the bedchamber G. Michelson, was admitted as a student of the Imperial Academy of Arts by a Royal decree in 1825, and received the name "Elson". His main mentor at the Academy was M. N. Sparrows . After graduating from the academic course in 1836 with a small gold medal, awarded to him for the painting "View from the vicinity of St. Petersburg" and with the title of the class artist, Elson did in 1838. and in 1840 on own account in Italy; on his return to Russia was in 1850 appointed recognized in academics, and in 1852 erected in the title "View in the town of Subiaco, near Rome" (located in the Museum of the Academy of fine Arts). Other paintings by this artist, and his drawings, are exclusively in private collections.
