Piotr Michałowski (1800-1855), Portrait of a boy

watercolor, paper / 27.8 x 21.8 cm
46 x 39.5 cm, dimensions with frame
inventory number: uk/sc/12/10/2020/3
ORIGIN:
private collection

Piotr Michałowski, Polish painter and draughtsman active in Cracow and Paris, representative of Romanticism. Born in 1800 in Cracow, died in 1855 in Krzyżtoporzyce near Cracow. A resilient social activist, exemplary civil servant and progressive landowner using the most modern methods of farming the land. A solid foundation for such multifaceted activities was provided by his education in science, natural sciences, mathematics, classical and oriental philology acquired at Jagiellonian University. Michalowski became famous as a painter of horses. In the 1840s, the period of the full flowering of Michałowski's painting talent, he created a rich gallery of portraits of people, including peasants.