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Portrait of Scholastyka Nikorowicz

Ostap Biliavskyi

Basic information

ID: Ж-5907
Author: Ostap Biliavskyi
Name: Portrait of Scholastyka Nikorowicz
Date of creation: 18th c.
Country: Germany
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions: 55 x 42 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Provenance: Lviv Historical Museum

Information about author

Author: Ostap Biliavskyi
Author in the original: Ostap (Eustachy) Biliavskyi
Artist's lifetime: 1740–1803
Country: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, now Ukraine
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 executed numerous commissioned portraits of burgers. 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".

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