Walenty Żebrowski (died 15 May 1765 in

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) was a notable 18th-century

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and a member of the

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order. It has been documented that Walenty Żebrowski was a native of

Lubawa Lubawa (german: Löbau in Westpreußen, Old Prussian: ''Lūbawa'') is a town in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland. It is located in Iława County on the Sandela River, some southeast of Iława. Geographical location Lubawa is located i ...

and that his given name at birth was Antoni. However, as was common in the era, the specific year, or even decade, of his birth remained unrecorded. Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after his death in

, he is remembered as the creative artist behind a series of late- baroque

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s in Bernardine churches in

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint Joh ...

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Warta The river Warta ( , ; german: Warthe ; la, Varta) rises in central Poland and meanders greatly north-west to flow into the Oder, against the German border. About long, it is Poland's second-longest river within its borders after the Vistula, a ...

Skępe Skępe is a town in Lipno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 7790 inhabitants (2012). It is the main sanctuary of Dobrzyń Land, with image of Our Lady crowned officially in 1755. History Skępe developed from a medieval Slav ...

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and

References

* People from Lubawa 18th-century Polish–Lithuanian painters 18th-century male artists Polish male painters Polish Cistercians 1765 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Poland-painter-stub