Kapiton Alekseyevich Zelentsov (Russian: Капитон Алексеевич Зеленцов; March 1790 – 15 May 1845) was a Russian painter, lithographer and illustrator.

Life

He was the son of a factory owner and collegiate assessor. and began taking lessons at the

Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...

in 1809. During the

Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...

he drew caricatures and popular patriotic prints while honing his skills by copying the old masters in the Hermitage.Biography
@ the

Tretyakov Gallery The State Tretyakov Gallery (russian: Государственная Третьяковская Галерея, ''Gosudarstvennaya Tretyâkovskaya Galereya''; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered th ...

website It was there that he met and came under the influence of

Alexey Venetsianov Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov (russian: Алексей Гаврилович Венецианов; 18 February 1780–4 January 1847) was a Russian painter, renowned for his paintings devoted to peasant life and ordinary people. Life Alexe ...

. Later, he worked for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was appointed to

His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancery or H.I.M. Own Chancery () began as personal chancery of Paul I and grew into a kind of regent's office, run by Count Arakcheyev from 1815 and until the death of Alexander I of Russia. Under Nicholas I, the Ch ...

, where he worked from 1814 to 1841, where he achieved the rank of Court Councilor.RusArtNet: Biography
/ref> In 1817, he was involved in creating ''The Magic Lamp or a View of St. Petersburg Traders'', for which he supplied forty etchings of scenes from everyday life. However, it wasn't until after his father went bankrupt that he took up art as a profession. After 1826, he contributed to exhibitions at the Academy. During the 1830s, many of his paintings and lithographs were used to illustrate the works of

Faddei Bulgarin Thaddeus Venediktovich Bulgarin (russian: Фаддей Венедиктович Булгарин; Polish Jan Tadeusz Krzysztof Bułharyn, – ), was a Russian writer, journalist and publisher of Polish ancestry. In addition to his newspaper ...

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

and

Mikhail Zagoskin Mikhail Nikolayevich Zagoskin (russian: Михаил Николаевич Загоскин; July 25, 1789 – July 5, 1852) was a Russian writer of social comedies and historical novels. Zagoskin was born in the village of Ramzay in Penza Oblast. ...

. In 1833, he was awarded the title "Academician of Perspective Painting" for his work "The Studio of Pyotr Basin". Many of his

interior portrait The interior portrait (portrait d'intérieur) or, in German, Zimmerbild (room picture), is a pictorial genre that appeared in Europe near the end of the 17th century and enjoyed a great vogue in the second half of the 19th century. It involves a c ...

s are considered to be among the best of the genre, following Venetsianov's belief that they too constitute "painting from nature". In 1835, he wrote the ''Entertaining Alphabet Compiled and Drawn by Kapiton Zelentsov''. He died in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zelentsov, Kapiton 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters 1790 births 1845 deaths 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire