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Vasily Sternberg
Vasily Sternberg
Василий Иванович Штернберг; Василь Іванович Штернберґ
	Self-Portrait, late 1830s, oil on canvas, 42 by 35 cm; Museum of the Academy of Arts [ru], Saint Petersburg
Born	February 12, 1818; Saint Petersburg
Died	September 8, 1845 (aged 27); Rome
Resting place	Protestant Cemetery, Rome
Alma mater	Imperial Academy of Arts
Known for	Painting
Awards

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]

Biography

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.