Tekla Bielska

Jozef Chojnicki

Basic information

ID: Ж-1356
Author: Jozef Chojnicki
Name: Tekla Bielska
Date of creation: 1782
Country: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Culture: Modern times
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 91.2 x 69.7

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Plot: Portrait
Provenance: the Dzieduszycki collection

Information about author

Author: Jozef Chojnicki
Artist's lifetime: c. 1745 – after 1812
Country: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, now Ukraine
Biography: Jozef Chojnicki was a Polish painter who was born and died in Lviv. He was a student of Stanislaw Stroinski. He created religious and portrait paintings. The artist painted the Dominican church in Ternopil and several works for the Lviv Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption: "Angels and St. Stanislaus", "St. Wenceslaus and Florian", and others. The portrait of the French queen Marie Antoinette (Ж-1782), signed by the author, is part of the Gallery collection.

Object description

Tekla Bielska (née Kalinowska) (Tekla Bielska z Kalinowskich) (c. 1724–1787) – starostina of Vinnytsia. Wife of Antoni Bielski. In 1736, she financed the construction of St. Anthony's Church and a Bernardine monastery in the village of Hvizdets (now Kolomyia District, Ivano-Frankivsk Region).

Inscriptions

On the reverse: "Restaurowal Alexander Włodzimirski w Lutym 1874 r.".

Portrayed person