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Zelentsov Kapiton Alekseevich (1790-1845)

One of the wonderful sacraments that accompany the birth and life of a particular person is the sacrament that predetermines the choice of his life path. In transferring to painting, there is always a question: why does one artist prefer to depict portraits of people on his canvases, another - historical paintings, the third - landscapes ... Kapiton Alekseevich Zelentsov was destined to become famous thanks to his interiors, although he also worked in portraits, painted genre scenes, was fond of etching and lithography.

Having a permanent job in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and then in the Chancellery of His Imperial Majesty, K. Zelentsov in his spare time painted, copying the masters of the Hermitage, took painting lessons from famous artists, for example, A.G. Venetsianov.

In the 1830s K.A. Zelentsov starts working as a professional artist. He paints famous paintings: "In the rooms. Living room with columns on the mezzanine", "In the rooms", "The boy at the table", etc.

His genre paintings and portraits were interesting in their own way. Yet the title of Academician K.A. Zelentsov received for the interior "Workshop of the artist P. Basin" (1833). Having lived his life in art, the artist left us, along with others, ideas about the interior decoration of the living and working premises of certain representatives of Russian society in the 19th century.