Walenty Wańkowicz

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Self-portrait

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

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

Karol Lipiński (1822)
Adam Mickiewicz (1828)
Maria Szymanowska (1828)
Woman Playing Solitaire (1829)

Sources

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

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