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Portrait of the artist's four children. Painting ID:: 96064
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Jan Matejko Portrait of the artist's four children. 1879(1879)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 149 x 209 cm (58.7 x 82.3 in)
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The First Sejm in eczyca Painting ID:: 96214
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Jan Matejko The First Sejm in eczyca 1888(1888)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 74 X 110 cm
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Stanczyk during a Ball at the Court of Queen Bona after the Loss of Smolensk Painting ID:: 97681
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Jan Matejko Stanczyk during a Ball at the Court of Queen Bona after the Loss of Smolensk 1862(1862)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 120 x 88 cm
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Portrait of Alfred Potocki Painting ID:: 98119
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Jan Matejko Portrait of Alfred Potocki 1879(1879)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 86 x 120.5 cm
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Jan Matejko
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Polish Painter, 1838-1893
He studied from 1852 to 1858 at the School of Fine Arts in Krakew and, during this time, started exhibiting historical paintings with the Society of Friends of the Fine Arts there (e.g. Sigismund I Bestowing Nobility on the Professors of the University of Krakew in 1535 (1858; Krakew, Jagiellonian U., Mus. F.A.). After studying in Munich (1859) under the history painter Hermann Anschetz (1802-80) and then briefly and less successfully in Vienna, Matejko returned to Krak?w, where he was based for the rest of his life. In 1860 Matejko issued an illustrated album, Ubiory w Polsce (later editions 1875 and 1901), a project reflecting his intense interest in historical records of all kinds and his desire to promote such interest among the Polish people in an effort to intensify their patriotic feelings. This role first became widely associated with Matejko with his painting of Stanczyk (1862; Warsaw, N. Mus.), the court jester to King Sigismund I (1437-1548), to whom Matejko gave his own features. The jester is presented as a symbol of the nation's conscience |
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