Vasily Sternberg
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Vasily Sternberg | |
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| Василий Иванович Штернберг Василь Іванович Штернберґ | |
 Self-Portrait, late 1830s, oil on canvas, 42 by 35 cm; Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg | |
| Born | February 12, 1818 |
| Died | September 8, 1845 (aged 27) |
| Resting place | Protestant Cemetery, Rome |
| Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts |
| Known for | Painting |
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Vasily Ivanovich Sternberg (Ukrainian: Василь Іванович Штернберґ, Russian: Василий Иванович Штернберг (12 February 1818, Saint Petersburg - 8 September 1845, Rome) was a Russian and Ukrainian landscape and genre painter.[1]
His father was a mining official. He began by auditing classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts and became a full student in 1835, studying landscape painting with Maxim Vorobiev.[1] In addition to his formal works, he was known for his delightful drawings and caricatures.
Summers were spent at the home of his patron in a region of Ukraine known[by whom?] as "Little Russia". Many of his best-known works were inspired by what he saw there. Some of his works were purchased by Tsar Nicholas I as gifts for the Tsar's family.[1] He was honored with the title of "Artist Class XIV".
From 1839 to 1840, he served in the expeditionary force to Khiva, led by General Vasily Alekseevich Perovsky.[2] Following that, he received a fellowship from the Academy to work in Rome.[2] He died there five years later, aged only twenty-seven.
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