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Portrait of Tadeusz Leszczynski

Ostap Biliavskyi

Basic information

ID: Ж-6223
Author: Ostap Biliavskyi
Name: Portrait of Tadeusz Leszczynski
Date of creation: 1793
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 50 x 40

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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

Tadeusz Leszczynski was a bearer of the Korczak coat of arms. Against a black background, there is a young man dressed in a uniform with a white collar and a wig. The artist’s work is characterised by restraint colors typical of the new period of Classicism. The composition of the bust-length image is simple. At the same time it conveys the equableness of mind of the depicted man. In his paintings, Ostap Beliavskyi aimed to give the viewers the better feel of the person’s character, at the same time representing the spirit of the times in each portrayed image.

Portrayed person

The name of the person portrayed: Tadeusz Leszczynski

Portrait of Tadeusz Leszczynski

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