Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein (Russian: Самуи́л Григо́рьевич Невельште́йн; 22 March 1903 – 16 November 1983) was a Soviet Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,[1] most known for his portraits of children and youth.

Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein was born on 22 March 1903 in Kherson, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine).

He studied with Vasily Savinsky, Arcady Rylov, Mikhail Bernshtein, Alexei Karev.

In these years, Secondary Art School pupils were Mikhail Anikushin, Vecheslav Zagonek, Yuri Tulin, Anatoli Levitin, Nikolai Kochukov, Iya Venkova, Vladimir Chekalov, Evgenia Antipova, Victor Teterin, Maya Kopitseva, Elena Kostenko, Abram Grushko, Oleg Lomakin, and others, subsequently became well-known Leningrad artists and sculptors.

[4] Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein died on 16 November 1983 in Leningrad at the eighty-first year of life.