Kapiton Alekseyevich Zelentsov (Russian: Капито́н Алексе́евич Зеленцо́в; 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

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in 1809. During the

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he drew caricatures and popular patriotic prints while honing his skills by copying the old masters in the Hermitage.Biography
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website It was there that he met and came under the influence of Alexey Venetsianov. Later, he worked for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was appointed to

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/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

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and

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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zelentsov, Kapiton 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Male painters from the Russian Empire 19th-century lithographers from the Russian Empire 1790 births 1845 deaths 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts