Vasily Semyonovich Sadovnikov (; â ) was a Russian painter, and a leading Russian master of perspective painting.
Vasily Semenovich Sadovnikov was born in 1800 in Saint Petersburg.
Vasily's brother, Pyotr Sadovnikov, was the architect of the Stroganov and Golitsyn families. He started his professional training with Andrey Voronikhin, subsequently became a Member of Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts (1849).
He died in 1879 in Saint Petersburg and was buried at Mitrofanyevskoe Cemetery (now abolished).