August Georg Wilhelm Pezold

Both of his parents died while he was still a child and he was raised by the Rehbinder family (former patients of his father) at their estate in Udriku.

From 1812 to 1814, he followed in his father's footsteps; studying medicine at the University of Dorpat (Tartu).

[1] He later travelled throughout central Europe and Finland but had to return home in 1837 due to the accidental deaths of two of his sons and his wife's subsequent illness.

In 1842, he became one of the founders of the Estonian Literary Society and began teaching at the University in Saint Petersburg.

In addition to his portraits and some landscapes, he painted scenes of rural life and the peasantry in what later would be called the Naïve style.