Henryk Siemiradzki, photo nieznany, ok. 1875, Public domain
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Henryk Siemiradzki, photo nieznany, ok. 1875, Public domain
License: public domain, Source: Wikimedia Commons, License terms and conditions

Henryk Siemiradzki

Caffè Greco in Rome

Henryk Siemiradzki

First name:

Henryk

Last Name:

Siemiradzki

Middle name:

Hektor

Parents:

Hipolit i Michalina z domu Pruszyńska

Date of birth:

12-10-1843 - 24-10-1843

Place of birth:

Nowobiełgorod

Date of death:

23-08-1902

Place od death:

Strzałków

Profession:

painter

Honours and awards:

Order Narodowy Legii Honorowej, Cesarski i Królewski Order Świętego Stanisława, Order Korony Włoch, Komandor zakonu świętych Maurycego i Łazarza

Biography:

Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (1843-1902), academic painter. In 1871 he graduated in painting from the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, receiving a six-year government scholarship. He went to Munich (also visiting Krakow), where he met many Polish painters, among them Jozef Brandt and Stanislaw Witkiewicz.