Size: 16 x 23.5 cm (sheet)
Inscribed at the bottom: 'Battle P. Michałowski'
Biography
Studied at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and in Göttingen (1821 - 1823) between 1815 and 1820. He studied drawing privately in Cracow with, among others, M. Stachowicz, J. Brodowski and F. Lampi. From 1832 to 1835 he was in Paris, where he studied in the studio of N. T. Charlet and studied in the Louvre the works of Spanish, Dutch and Flemish painters. In 1835 he was in England, then returned to Krakow, where he was president of the Administrative Council from 1848 to 1853. Until 1832, during a period of amateur art, he made drawings and watercolors mainly under the influence of A. Orlovsky and C. J. Vernet. He drew and painted horses, harnesses, stagecoaches and domestic cattle. Battle scenes from the Napoleonic wars and the November Uprising were also the subject of his paintings; he painted equestrian portraits of chiefs and hetmans, portraits of family and friends and, as the first of Polish artists, portraits of peasants and Jews.
