Wilhelm August Golicke (Russian: Вильгельм-Август Голике, romanized: Vilgelm-Avgust Golike), also known as Vasily Aleksandrovich Golike (Russian: Василий Александрович Голике; 1790 or 1802 – 5 July 1848),^[1] was a Russian painter of Baltic German origin.

He was born in Tallinn or Saint Petersburg. He grew up in the German community of Tallinn ("Reval", in German),^[2] and studied in Saint Petersburg at the studios of the English painter George Dawe.

Between 1822 and 1828 Dawe, together with Golicke and another of his students, Alexander Polyakov, a serf, painted 332 portraits of Tsarist Generals who had distinguished themselves in the war against Napoleon.^[2] The paintings were placed in the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace. Dawe became a good friend of Golicke's during their work together and left him an annuity in his will.^[3]

After Dawes' death, Golicke studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts. He graduated in 1832 and was named an "Independent Artist" (Cвободный Xудожник), a sign of official recognition.^[3] In 1837, he visited England and Italy. He died in Saint Petersburg, of cholera, in 1848.^[2]

His post-Dawe work consisted largely of genre paintings, still-lifes and scenes from history. Many of his works can be seen at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

• Voltsenburg, Oskar E. [in Russian]; et al., eds. (1976). "Голике, Василий (Вильгельм-Август) Александрович". Художники народов СССР (in Russian). Vol. 3. Moscow: Iskusstvo. p. 72.

• PetroArt: Brief ungrammatical biography of Golicke with link to portraits.
• AskArt: "The Fruit Seller" and "The Fisherman", by Golicke