Portrait of Paulina Dzieduszycka

Alojzy Reichan

Basic information

ID: Ж-1688
Author: Alojzy Reichan
Name: Portrait of Paulina Dzieduszycka
Date of creation: c. 1845
Country: Austrian Empire
Culture: Modern times
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 97 x 77

Additionally

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

Information about author

Author: Alojzy Reichan
Artist's lifetime: 1807–1860
Country: Austrian Empire
Biography: Alojzy Reichan (June 22, 1807, Lviv – November 6, 1860, Lviv) was a renowned Polish and Ukrainian portrait painter. He was the son of the artist Jozef Reichan and the father of the artist Stanislaw Reichan. He graduated from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. After completing his studies in 1838, Alojzy Reichan purchased a tenement on Krakowska Street in Lviv, where he lived until his death. A. Reichan's works in the Biedermeier style exhibit characteristics of the Viennese School. He also painted miniatures and genre scenes and engaged in lithography.

Object description

Anna Paulina Dzieduszycka (1795–1856) was the daughter of Ksawery Działyńsk of the Ogończyk coat of arms, senator-voivode of the Duchy of Warsaw and the Kingdom of Poland, and Justyna, née Działyńska. From 1816, she was the wife of Józef Kalasanty Dzieduszycki (1776–1847) and mother of Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki.

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