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Portrait of Jakub Stefan Augustynowicz

Ostap Biliavskyi

Basic information

ID: Ж-4519
Author: Ostap Biliavskyi
Name: Portrait of Jakub Stefan Augustynowicz
Date of creation: 18th c.
Country: Poland
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions: 85 x 65 cm (height x width)

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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

Jakub Stefan Augustynowicz (1701–1783) was an Armenian religious figure, a Catholic priest, and the Lviv Armenian Catholic Church leader. He got a Doctor of Philosophy degree. Jakub Augustynowicz was born in Lviv, where he later died. He was buried in the crypt of the Armenian Cathedral. In the late 1790s and early 1800s, Ostap Biliavskyi created a gallery of portraits of Armenian Latin bishops, including the portrait of Jakub Stefan Augustynowicz, a brother and predecessor of Jan Tobiasz Augustynowicz. A clear waist-length image of the bishop is depicted against the dark background. The artist managed to express the character of the person portrayed. A masterful depiction of the individual features of the portrayed people characterises the works by Ostap Biliavskyi.

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