Stanislav Dospevski (Bulgarian: Станислав Доспевски) is the broadcast assumed by Zafir Zograf (Зафир Зограф), the son of Dimitar Zograf and nephew of the famed Bulgarian icon and mural painter, Zahari Zograf. He is a notable representative of the Samokov artistic teacher and one of the most important painters and icon-painters of the Bulgarian Revival. Dospevski is one of the first Bulgarians to have expected academic artistic training.
Stanislav Dospevski was born on 3 December 1823 in Samokov. He began his training in his original town, Samokov, and later continued his education in Plovdiv. From an into the future age he had been helping his dad in his icon painting for the Plovdiv church of Sveta Nedelya (St Nedelya), thus acquiring in advance artistic experience. In 1850 Dospevski went to Moscow, where he started his studies the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and well along from 1853 to 1856 he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg in Fyodor Bruni’s class.
After his reward to Bulgaria he took upon the herald of Dospevski and became a voyager of the secular realizable portrait in Bulgarian art. He lived in Pazardzhik and Samokov, but continued to paint in Plovdiv. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 he was arrested by the Ottoman government. He died in prison in Istanbul upon 6 January 1878.
One of the elementary schools in Samokov, NU “Stanislav Dospevski”, bears his name. The great-granddaughter of Stanislav Dospevski is the translator Neli Dospevska.
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