Nikolay Nikanorovich Dubovskoy (Russian: Николай Никанорович Дубовской; 17 December 1859, Novocherkassk — 28 February 1918, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian landscape painter, associated with the Peredvizhniki. Together with Isaac Levitan, he helped create what came to be known as the "Landscape of Mood". His father insisted that he follow family tradition, however, and enrolled him in the in 1870. Once there, his instructors noticed that he spent all of his free time drawing and advised his father to give him an art education instead.
In 1877, after receiving his father's permission, he began auditing classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts, then became a student of the landscape painter Mikhail Clodt. Upon graduating in 1881, he was apparently displeased with his instruction at the academy and refused to participate in the customary competition for a gold medal.