Oil on canvas, signed and dated p.d. "L. Szpadkowski 1884."
Dimensions in frame: 81x96 cm (58x73 cm)
Ludomir Szpadkowski (Derbent 1855-1908 Warsaw) Polish painter, professor. From 1858 he lived in Warsaw, where he graduated from high school. In 1877 -1883 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under Izydor Jablonski, Wladyslaw Luszczkiewicz, Florian Cynk and Ferndynand Löffler. In 1877 he was in the Carpathian Mountains, in 1878 in Vienna and Tyrol, and in 1879 in Munich. In 1880 he was in Hungary, where he participated in the unveiling of a monument to Joseph Bem in Maros Vaserhely in Transylvania. He exhibited in 1883 at the TPSP in Cracow, and from 1885 at the Krywult Salon and the TZSP in Warsaw. He took part in a temporary exhibition of works of art in Lodz 1889. In 1899 he was one of the founders of the United Artists Painters, Sculptors and Architects company established in Warsaw to support decorative and religious art. He is buried in the Powązki cemetery in Warsaw. His works are rare on the antiquarian market.
