"Nobleman with a Parrot", 1859, oil on canvas, National Museum, Cracow
"Portrait of Jadwiga Luszczewska (Deotyma)", 1855, oil on canvas, 210 x 141 cm, Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine

In 1861, the Warsaw-based Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, a newly created social institution whose intention was to support domestic art and artists, featured the Death of Barbara Radziwillowna by Jozef Simmler. A renowned author of portraits, he skilfully resorted to conventions of costume painting, popular specially in France, which offered the wide public an illusory reconstruction of the past, and not so much referred to historical knowledge as stimulated feelings of compassion, dread, and tenderness. This variety of popular sentimental-anecdotic painting soon became obliterated by works which comprised the most original chapter in the history of nineteenth-century Polish art - the oeuvre of Jan Matejko. [*]

Artist’s paintings in malarze.com

Artist biography at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Simmler

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