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Portrait of Jan Tobiasz Augustynowicz

Ostap Biliavskyi

Basic information

ID: Ж-4518
Author: Ostap Biliavskyi
Name: Portrait of Jan Tobiasz Augustynowicz
Date of creation: 18th c.
Country: russian empire
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions: 85 x 65 cm (height x width)

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Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Provenance: Lviv Historical Museum

Information about author

Author: Ostap Biliavskyi
Author in the original: Ostap (Eustachy) Biliavskyi
Artist's lifetime: 1740–1803
Country: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, now Ukraine
Biography: Ostap (Eustachy) Biliavskyi (1740–1803) was a Ukrainian artist who worked in Western Ukraine. He is known for portrait paintings and religious artworks. He was born in the village of Horodyshche near Berezhany. In the 1760s, Ostap studied at the Academy of St. Luke in Rome. The artist lived and worked in Lviv after 1771. He executed numerous commissioned portraits of burgers. In the late 1790s and early 1800s, he created a gallery of portraits of Armenian archbishops. In addition to portrait painting, Ostap Biliavskyi was engaged in monumental painting. A significant collection of works by Ostap Biliavskyi has been preserved nowadays.

Object description

Jan Tobiasz Augustynowicz (1664–1751) was a Catholic priest, deacon, and bishop of the Lviv Armenian Church. He was born in the Lviv noble family of Augustynowicz. His parents were Grzegorz and Anna from the Jakubowicz family. Having graduated from the Lviv College of Theatine Fathers, he was ordained in 1689. Jan Tobiasz Augustynowicz donated a large part of his fortune to charity. In the late 1790s and early 1800s, Ostap Biliavskyi created a gallery of portraits of Armenian Latin bishops, including the portrait of Jan Tobiasz Augustynowicz. In the painting, the artist skillfully expresses the character of the person portrayed.

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