Portrait of Antoni Brodowski (Copy After a Self-Portrait)

Rafal Hadziewicz

Basic information

ID: Ж-4843
Author: Rafal Hadziewicz
Name: Portrait of Antoni Brodowski (Copy After a Self-Portrait)
Date of creation: 1831
Country: Poland
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 57 x 45

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Plot: Portrait
Provenance: Vasyl Stefanyk Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv

Information about author

Author: Rafal Hadziewicz
Artist's lifetime: 1803–1886
Country: Poland
Biography: Rafal Hadziewicz (October 13, 1803, Zamosc – September 7, 1886, Kielce) was a Polish painter. He studied in Warsaw (with instructor Antoni Brodowski), Paris, and Italy. From 1839 to 1844, he worked as a professor of historical painting in Moscow. From 1846, he was a professor at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. The artist's body of work includes portraits and paintings on historical and religious themes.

Object description

Rafal Hadziewicz's work is a free copy of the self-portrait of Antoni Brodowski (1784–1832) – a Polish painter, educator, and the most prominent representative of Сlassicism in Polish painting. Hadziewicz was a student of A. Brodowski from 1822 to 1829. The portrait is a half-length depiction of a young man against a dark, neutral background, shown slightly to the right. The subject is dressed in a brown double-breasted frock coat with a high stand-up collar, from which a white bow tie is visible. Particular attention is drawn to the severe and even stern gaze of the man's dark eyes, directed at the viewer.

Inscriptions

On the reverse, there is an inscription: "Portret Antoniego Brodowskiego. Profesora malarstwa w Warszawie 1831, malował Rafał Hadziewicz".

Portrayed person