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Portrait of Mikolaj Dembowski

Adam Manyoki

Basic information

ID: Ж-6205
Author: Adam Manyoki
Name: Portrait of Mikolaj Dembowski
Date of creation: 18th c.
Country: France
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions: 78 x 61.7 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Provenance: the Rzewuski collection (Pidhirtsi Castle)
Exposition: Olesko Castle

Information about author

Author: Adam Manyoki
Author in the original: Ádám Mányoki
Artist's lifetime: 1673–1757
Country: Hungary
Biography: Adam Manyoki (1673–1757) was a Hungarian artist. He studied in Luneburg and Hamburg, later in Hanover and Paris. The artist received his education with the assistance of the German staff officer Dulfer. Manioki worked exclusively in the genre of portraiture, where he developed his style.

Object description

Mikolaj Dembowski (1680–1757) was a Polish nobleman, courtier, Roman Catholic religious figure, and Latin bishop of Kamyanets. He was a son of Florian Dembowski, a ziemski (land) judge of Polotsk, and Ewa Szwiejko-Ciechanowiecka. In 1753, he received the Order of the White Eagle. The image of Mikolaj Dembowski, bishop of Kamyanets, a candidate for the archbishopric in Lviv, is considered one of the portraits of the clergy. The work is mentioned in the inventory of Pidhirtsi Castle in 1768, where it remained until 1939. The portrait of M. Dembowski is painted in a manner traditional for Adam Manyoki, where the primary attention is concentrated on the face. The painting is executed in an ashy-silver colour scheme with a slight accent of red.

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