Walenty Wańkowicz
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Walenty Wilhelm Wańkowicz (February 14, 1799 in Kałużyce - May 12, 1842 in Paris) was a Polish painter. He studied at the Jesuit College in Polotsk, the University of Wilno and the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. He produced, among other things, a well-known portrait of Adam Mickiewicz (1827–28).[1]
Legacy
[edit]Wańkowicz is honored in Belarus as one of the most important 19th-century painters of Belarusian origin.[2] There is a monument to him in Minsk.[3]
The Vankovich House / Wańkowicz House, the former mansion of the Wańkowicz family, is now a museum in the historical part of Minsk.[4]
Selected portraits
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Karol Lipiński (1822) -
Adam Mickiewicz (1828) -
Maria Szymanowska (1828) -
Woman Playing Solitaire (1829)
Sources
[edit]- M. Domański, Walenty Wańkowicz - artysta i przyjaciel Mickiewicza, "Rota", 1997 nr 4.
- Jan Marek Giżycki, Materyały do dziejów Akademii Połockiej i szkół od niej zależnych, 1905
See also
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Categories:
- 1799 births
- 1842 deaths
- People from Byerazino District
- People from Igumensky Uyezd
- Ruthenian nobility
- Clan of Lis
- 19th-century Polish painters
- Polish portrait painters
- 19th-century Polish male artists
- Jesuit College in Polotsk alumni
- Vilnius University alumni
- Burials at Montmartre Cemetery
- Polish male painters
- Painters from the Russian Empire