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Portrait of Jakub Walerian Tumanowicz

Ostap Biliavskyi

Basic information

ID: Ж-6212
Author: Ostap Biliavskyi
Name: Portrait of Jakub Walerian Tumanowicz
Date of creation: 1787
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions: 85.5 x 65.1 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

Jakub Walerian Tumanowicz (1714–1798) was a Catholic priest, a talented preacher, and a bishop of the Armenian Catholic Church in Lviv. He was of Armenian descent. Jakub Walerian Tumanowicz studied at the Pontifical College of Theatine Fathers in Lviv. He was also engaged in the construction of new churches. In the late 1790s and up to the early 1800s, Ostap Biliavskyi created a gallery of portraits of Armenian Latin bishops, including the portrait of Jakub Walerian Tumanowicz. The male waist-length image is depicted against the dark background. The painting is characterized by the balance of the composition, the smooth contours, and clearly drawn volumes. The artist mainly focused on the inner world of the portrayed man.

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