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Portrait of Anna Dzieduszycka

Artur Grottger

Basic information

ID: Ж-227
Author: Artur Grottger
Name: Portrait of Anna Dzieduszycka
Date of creation: 1865
Country: Austrian Empire
Culture: Modern times
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions: 57.5 x 45.8 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Plot: Portrait
Provenance: the Dzieduszycki collection

Information about author

Author: Artur Grottger
Author in the original: Artur Grottger
Artist's lifetime: 1837–1867
Country: Austrian Empire
Biography: Artur Grottger was born in 1837 in the village of Otynevychi in the Lviv region (former Ottyniowice, Eastern Galicia). He studied at the Lviv School of Painting of Jan Maszkowski and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Vienna (1852–1858). Artur Grottger is a leading representative of Polish Romanticism, as well as a painter, periodical illustrator, graphic artist, and watercolourist. He is the author of six patriotic art cycles regarding the January Uprising against the Russian occupation of Poland of 1863, portraits, and local history materials. Artur Grottger died after a severe illness in Amélie-les-Bains, France, in 1867. He was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv (field No.95).

Object description

Anna Dzieduszycka (1859–1917) – daughter of Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki and Alfonsyna Dzieduszycka, and, from 1879, the wife of Tadeusz Diduszycki (1841–1918), a member of the Regional Sejm in Lviv for the fourth and fifth terms (1877–1889). She had seven children with him: three daughters (Róża, Klementyna, Maria) and four sons (Paweł, Włodzimierz, Stanisław, Kazimierz).

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