Kapiton Pavlov

Kapiton Stepanovich Pavlov (1791–1842) was a Russian portrait painter. A native of Revel (now Tallinn), he was the son of a government official. He graduated from the Academy in St. Petersburg in 1815, after which he went to Ukraine; there, he spent thirty years painting. From 1820 until 1829 he taught painting at the gymnasium in Nezhin. He also taught at Kiev University from 1839 until 1841.