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Portrait of Scholastyka Nikorowicz

Ostap Biliavskyi

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Basic information
ID
Ж-5907
Author
Ostap Biliavskyi
Name
Portrait of Scholastyka Nikorowicz
Date of creation
18th c.
Technique
oil painting
Material
canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm)
55 x 42
Additionally
Type
painting
Genre
portraiture
Provenance
Lviv Historical Museum
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
Scholastyka Nikorowicz (1713–1787) – Armenian by descent from the Augustinowicz family, wife of Dominik Nikorowicz. The chamber image represents the half-length figure of a woman, standing against a dark background. Scholastyka is depicted in a pose characteristic of a ceremonial portrait: three-quarter reverse to the left. Every detail of the woman's costume is carefully outlined: on her head is a mob cap - a simple cap with ruffles, an ash-grey dress with a large collar. The artist in the image searched, above all, the expression of the inner substance of the portrayed, but not representativeness. The main emphasis in the work is on the calm, attentive focused face. On the back is the inscription: "O.Bielawski, pix: 1787 Ano./ Scholastyka z Augustinowiczow de Nikorowicz / 731 7-bris 1787 obijt".
Portrayed person
The name of the person portrayed
Scholastyka Nikorowicz
Lifetime of the person portrayed
1713–1787

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