Pavel Rizzoni

Pavel Antonovich Rizzoni, or Paolo Rizzoni (Russian: Павел Антонович Риццони; 20 October 1823, Riga – 1913, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian genre painter and graphic artist of Italian ancestry.

He received his first lessons from a local artist, then audited classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts from 1839 to 1847.

He visited Germany, Holland and Belgium, but was forced to cut his trip short due the Revolutions of 1848.

In 1850, he received another stipend and, together with the landscape painter Yegor Meyer, travelled through Bessarabia, Byelorussia and the Caucasus.

From 1861 to 1866, he worked as a drawing teacher at several women's gymnasia, while giving private painting lessons.