Viktor Alekseyevich Bobrov (Russian: Ви́ктор Алексе́евич Бобро́в; 1842, Gatobuzhi, Saint Petersburg Governorate – 21 June 1918, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian watercolorist in the Academic style.
He was born to a family of merchants and attended the public schools of Saint Petersburg.
[1] In 1860, against his father's wishes and without his support, he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied with Carl Timoleon von Neff, Pyotr Shamshin, Pyotr Basin and Bogdan Willewalde.
He moved up to first degree the following year and became an "Academician" in 1873 for his painting of Antonio Stradivari.
He was best known for watercolor portraits of young women, which were published in several magazines throughout Russia and became very popular during the 1880s.