Zelentsov Capito Alexeyevich (1790-1845)

One of the great mysteries that accompany the birth and life of a particular person is a mystery, dictates the choice of his life. In carrying on the painting is always the question: why one artist prefers to portray in their paintings are portraits of people, the other - historical paintings, and the third - landscapes ... Kapiton Alekseevichu Zelentsova it was destined to become famous through its interior, although he was engaged and portraits, painted genre scenes fond of etching and lithography.

 Having a permanent job in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and then in the Office of His Imperial Majesty, K. Zelencov in his spare time drawing, copying the masters of the Hermitage, took painting lessons from famous artists, for example, AG Venetsianov .

 In the 1830s, KA Zelentsov began working as a professional artist. Writes famous paintings: "In the rooms. Living room with columns on the mezzanine," "In the rooms," "Boy at the table", etc.

 In its own interesting were his genre paintings and portraits. Yet the title of academician K. Zelentsov received for the interior "The Artist P. Basin" (1833). Having lived my life in art, the artist has left us, along with other ideas about interior decoration of residential and business premises of individual representatives of the Russian society of the XIX century.