Dimensions: 37 x 29 cm
Inscribed in pencil p.d.: 'I state that this drawing | donated | by me to K.B. comes from the family| of the artist' [illegible] | 20/II 1943'.
Provenance
collection of Eugeniusz and Lina Borzęcka, Cracow
collection of the heirs of Eugeniusz and Lina Borzęcka, Cracow
Biography
In 1815-1820 he studied at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and in Göttingen (1821 - 1823). He studied drawing privately in Cracow with, among others, M. Stachowicz, J. Brodowski and F. Lampi. From 1832 to 1835 he stayed in Paris, where he studied in the studio of N. T. Charlet and studied in the Louvre the works of Spanish, Dutch and Flemish painters. In 1835 he was in England, then returned to Krakow, where he was president of the Administrative Council from 1848 to 1853. Until 1832, during a period of amateur art, he made drawings and watercolors mainly under the influence of A. Orlovsky and C. J. Vernet. He drew and painted horses, harnesses, stagecoaches and domestic cattle. The subjects of his paintings were also battle scenes from the Napoleonic wars and the November Uprising; he painted equestrian portraits of chiefs and hetmans, portraits of family and friends and, as the first of Polish artists, portraits of peasants and Jews.
