"Near Water Spring", 1885, oil on canvas, 42 x 25 cm, private collection
"At the Well", oil on canvas, 50 x 35.5 cm, private collection
"Bringing Comfort and Help", 1885, oil on canvas, 57 x 119 cm, private collection
"Boy from the Sabine Hills", c. 1889, oil on canvas, 41.3 x 31.5 cm, private collection
"Night in Pompeii", c. 1881, oil on canvas, 90 x 145.5 cm, private collection
"Near Castel Gandolfo", 1875, oil on canvas, 18 x 33 cm, private collection
"Portrait of a Young Italian Woman", c. 1875, oil on panel, 21.8 x 16.2 cm, private collection
"Grand Prince Alexander Nevsky", sketch, State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
"Portrait of the Artist's Mother", 1887, oil on canvas, 33 x 25.5 cm, National Museum, Cracow
[...] Henryk Siemiradzki, active mainly in Rome, where he enjoyed the international renown of an author of effective, academic scenes from the life of ancient Greece and Rome, including the martyrdom of the first Christians, a fashionable theme, full of cruelty and opulence. His monumental canvas Torches of Nero (Candlesticks of Christianity), donated in a patriotic gesture, became the core of the first national gallery in the Cracow Cloth Halls. [...]
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Artist’s paintings in malarze.com
Artist biography at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Siemiradzki
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