Krasnystaw
Krasnystaw is a town in southeastern Poland with 18,630 inhabitants (31 December 2019). It is the capital of Krasnystaw County in the Lublin Voivodeship.
The town is famous for its beer festival called ''Chmielaki'' ( means hops, hop), and for i ...
- 28 February 1879,
Paris
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His father was a magistrate. While working for the Ministry of Education in Warsaw, he presented samples of his calligraphy to Ministry headquarters and was sent at government expense, from 1817 to 1824, to study at the
Imperial Academy of Arts
The Imperial Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by Ivan Shuvalov, the founder of the Imperial Moscow University, under the name ''Academy of th ...
in Saint Petersburg with
Nikolai Utkin
Nikolai Ivanovich Utkin (; 19 May 1780 – 17 March 1863) was a Russian graphic artist, engraver and illustrator. He also served as curator of prints at the Hermitage and superintendent of the museum at the Imperial Academy of Arts.Biographical notes @ Miłośnicy Grafiki. where he received several silver medals.
Upon graduating, he was awarded a gold medal for his engraving of
Alexander Kokorinov
Alexander Filippovich Kokorinov (; 10 July 1726 – 21 March 1772) was a Architecture of Russia, Russian architect and educator of Siberian origin, generally remembered for his role in establishing the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Peterburg, ...
, after a portrait by
Dmitry Levitzky
Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitzky or Levitsky (; ; – ) was a Russian portrait painter and academician.
Biography
He was born to , a priest, who was also an amateur painter and engraver and served as his first art teacher. In 1758, he moved to S ...
. He then went to Paris, again at government expense, where he worked in the studios of the painter
Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Jean-Baptiste Regnault (; 9 October 1754 – 12 November 1829) was a French painter.
Biography
Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to ...
and the engraver
Théodore Richomme
Théodore Richomme (28 May 1785, Paris - 22 September 1849, Paris) was a French engraver. A street in the 18th arrondissement of Paris is named after him.
Life
A student of Jacques Joseph Coiny, Théodore Richomme won the prix de Rome in 1806. ...
. After that, he spent four years in
Florence
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Florence ...
.
In 1832, he received an offer of employment at the Academy, but he chose to become part of the
Great Emigration
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and settled in Paris, where he remained until his death. He contributed engravings to several "clandestine" Polish language publications including ''Babin na obcej ziemi'' (Babin in a Strange Land, by the "
Babin Republic
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University of Warsaw Library
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. and issued two albums with text; ''Rozmaitości polskie'' (Polish Miscellany, 1833) and ''Wspomnienia o polakach, co słynęli w obcych i odległych krajach'' (Memories of the Poles who became famous in foreign countries, 1843). He also illustrated the Polish history of
Lucjan Siemieński
Lucjan Hipolit Siemieński (13 August 1807 in Kamienna Góra near Żółkiew – 27 November 1877 in Kraków) was a Polish Romantic poet, prose writer, translator and literary critic.
See also
*List of Poles
This is a partial list of not ...
and several works by
Leonard Chodźko
Leonard Borejko Chodźko (1800–1871) was a Polish historian, geographer, cartographer, publisher, archivist, and activist of Poland's post- November-1830-Uprising Great Emigration.
Life
He was born on November 6, 1800, in Oborek, as the son o ...
.
His younger brothers both became artists. was an engraver for the
Bank of Poland Bank of Poland may refer to:
* Bank Polski, the central bank of Congress Poland (1828-1885)
* Bank Polski SA
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On , Bank Polski SA su ...
and
Władysław Władysław is a Polish given male name, cognate with Vladislav. The feminine form is Władysława, archaic forms are Włodzisław (male) and Włodzisława (female), and Wladislaw is a variation. These names may refer to:
People Mononym
*Włodzis ...
was a noted sculptor.
Selected portraits
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Tadeusz Kościuszko
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (; 4 or 12 February 174615 October 1817) was a Polish Military engineering, military engineer, statesman, and military leader who then became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania, and ...
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Andrzej Artur Zamoyski
Count Andrzej Artur Zamoyski (2 April 1800 – 29 October 1874) was a Polish szlachta, nobleman, landowner and political and economic activist.
Zamoyski organized meetings of landowners (''Klemensowczycy'') at his Klemensów estate ...
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Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal
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Stanisław Bonifacy Jundziłł
Stanisław Bonifacy Jundziłł or, in Lithuanian, Stanislovas Bonifacas Jundzilas (6 May 1761 in Jasiańce, Voranava District – 15 April 1847 in Vilnius) was a Polish-Lithuanian priest, botanist, educator and diarist who lectured at the ...
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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