Vasily Ivanovich Sternberg (Ukrainian: Василь Іванович Штернберґ, Russian: Василий Иванович Штернберг (12 February 1818, Saint Petersburg - 8 September 1845, Rome) was a Russian and Ukrainian landscape and genre painter.

He began by auditing classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts and became a full student in 1835, studying landscape painting with Maxim Vorobiev.

[1] In addition to his formal works, he was known for his delightful drawings and caricatures.

Summers were spent at the home of his patron in a region of Ukraine known[by whom?]

From 1839 to 1840, he served in the expeditionary force to Khiva, led by General Vasily Alekseevich Perovsky.