Description
Oil, canvas; 43.5 x 33 cm
Inscribed on the reverse in pen:
Ignacy Niewiadomski | was 40 years old, in the year 1830 | husband of Fortunata from Bocz: | very well hit | by P. Jablonski | in. Lviv
Fortunata from Boczkowskis | Niewiadomska | was 24 years old in 1830 | very accurately from painted | by P. Jablonski | in Lvov.
Original frames from the period
Asking price 20000
Estimation 22000 - 28000
Ignacy Dominik Niewiadomski coat of arms Prus I (1790 Trzcinica - 1858 Drohobycz) son of Ignacy (administrator of the estate of Prince Stanislaw Jabłonowski in the village of Trzcinica near Jasło) and Kunegunda née Myczkowska. Married to Fortunata, daughter of Szymon Boczkowski of Gozdawa coat of arms, he had 3 daughters and 4 sons with her. Ignacy Dominik's brother was Jakub Ewaryst (1780 - 1860), in the Polish army of the Duchy of Warsaw from 1811, head of the food bureau at the Ministry of War, served in the Napoleonic campaign of 1812-14. In the Kingdom of Poland, head of the funds bureau of the Government War Commission. After the surrender of the 1831 uprising, he remained in Warsaw and renewed his oath of allegiance to the tsar by becoming a counselor of the Supreme Audit Office. He was a Freemason in the "Bouclier du Nord" lodge.
Marcin JABŁOŃSKI
Glogow near Rzeszow 1801 - Lviv 1876
Learned painting in the studio of an unspecified Lvov guild painter, then studied painting in the galleries of Krakow, Warsaw and Vienna. In 1820 he settled in Lvov, where he soon won great success as a portrait painter. He also worked for churches, particularly in Lvov, painting and restoring both altar paintings and polychromes. In 1848, he received a license to operate a lithographic business and abandoned his painting career at that time. In 1863, having lost his wife and two sons in the January Uprising, he sold the establishment and left Lviv doing restoration work for churches and Orthodox churches. Shortly before his death, he returned to Lviv.Jablonski's portraits were very popular with his contemporaries. Stylistically similar to the Viennese Biedermeier type, they were characterized by an accurate grasp of the model's likeness and accuracy of elaboration of details. The matter-of-factness of the depiction was very much in line with the requirements of the bourgeois or clerical clientele of the time. Marcin Jablonski's paintings are in the following museums: the National Museum in Krakow, the District Museum in Rzeszow, the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Wroclaw, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Lviv Picture Gallery, the Museum of Ukrainian Art in Lviv. Two portraits by Marcin Jablonski were sold at the 129th Auction House Ostoya.
