Jan Betley (1908 - 1980) was a Polish painter. Betley was born in

Płock Płock (pronounced ), officially the Ducal Capital City of Płock, is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship. According to the data provided by Central Statistical Office (Poland), GUS on 31 December 2021, the ...

. Before the World War II, he was a student of two well known Polish painters, Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Felicjan Kowarski, at the

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(ASP). In 1936, he graduated under the advisory of Pruszkowski and qualified himself as the assistant-professor in 1948. Most of his early paintings were lost during the war time. After the war he taught at the ASP. He was a member of the '' Fourth Group'' advocating traditional subjects and perfectionism of technique. He is known for his

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s of horses, battle scenes and genre pieces. He was closely related to Polish Colourism. His works can be found in Polish museums and in private collections in Poland and

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. Betley died in Warsaw at age 72.

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Jan Betley
1908 births 1980 deaths 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists Polish male painters Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland {{Poland-painter-stub