Stebėkiai
Stebėkiai () is a village in Panevėžys District Municipality, Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P .... According to the 2011 census, it had no residents. It is located from Vadokliai town. Prominent Polish-Lithuanian painter Kanuty Rusiecki was born here. References Villages in Panevėžys County {{PanevėžysCounty-geo-stub ...
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Kanuty Rusiecki
Kanuty Rusiecki (; 1800–1860) was a Polish-Lithuanian painter. Biography He was born into an impoverished noble Polish-Lithuanian family in Lithuania and his father was a magistrate. He is said to have displayed his artistic talent at an early age, making impromptu models in wax. In 1816, he began his studies at the University of Vilnius. Initially, he studied law and mathematics, but eventually followed his true interests and, in 1818, switched to the study of art, under the tutelage of Jan Rustem and Kazimierz Jelski.Timeline
@ the Lietuvos Nacionalinė Martyno Mažvydo Biblioteka. During his stay at the university, he was a member of the Philomaths, a secret society of Polish students. With letters of recommendation and his father's financial support (and following a secret marriage), he went to Paris and enrolled at the École nationale ...
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