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Portrait of Dominik Nikorowicz

Ostap Biliavskyi

Basic information

ID: Ж-5903
Author: Ostap Biliavskyi
Name: Portrait of Dominik Nikorowicz
Date of creation: 1787
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 55.2 x 41.7

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Provenance: Lviv Historical Museum
Exposition: Olesko Castle

Information about author

Author: Ostap Biliavskyi
Artist's lifetime: 1740–1803
Biography: Ostap (Eustachy) Biliavskyi (1740–1803) was a Ukrainian artist who worked in Western Ukraine. He is known for portrait paintings and religious artworks. He was born in the village of Horodyshche near Berezhany. In the 1760s, Ostap studied at the Academy of St. Luke in Rome. The artist lived and worked in Lviv after 1771. He painted numerous portraits of burghers on order. In the late 1790s and early 1800s, he created a gallery of portraits of Armenian archbishops. In addition to portrait painting, Ostap Biliavskyi was engaged in monumental painting. A significant collection of works by Ostap Biliavskyi has been preserved nowadays.

Object description

Ostap Biliavskyi was the last Lviv artist of the guild masters. The painter skillfully showed individual features of the portrayed people’s faces; in his portrait gallery there are no two similar faces. Among the best works by Ostap Biliavskyi there is a portrait of Dominik Nikorowicz, an assessor (juror) of the tribunal, who came from the Armenian family of Nikorowicz. In 1782, he received nobility from the Austrian Emperor. The portrait of a nobleman is characterised by some introversion and estrangement from the public interest. The bust-length image of the man is barely turned to the right. The man’s clothing is depicted in detail. Skillfully showing the features of Dominik Nikorowicz’s face, the artist managed to capture an image of a good and educated person.

Portrayed person

The name of the person portrayed: Dominik Nikorowicz

Portrait of Dominik Nikorowicz

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