"Self-Portrait", after 1876, oil on canvas, 80 x 55 cm, National Museum, Cracow
"Portrait of Aleksander Stankiewicz", prior to 1892, oil on canvas, 62 x 50 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"Portrait of a Roman Woman", Bielsko-Biala Museum
"Torches of Nero or Candlesticks of Christianity", 1876, oil on canvas, National Museum, Cracow
"Young Orpheus", oil on canvas, 49.8 x 59.4 cm, private collection
"The Young Angler", oil on canvas, 66 x 89.5 cm, private collection
"Roman Idyll - Fishing", c. 1879, oil on canvas, 55.5 x 75 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"Study for a Portrait - Head of a Girl", oil on canvas, 46.5 x 33 cm, private collection
"Christ and the Samaritan Woman", 1890, oil on canvas, 106.5 x 184 cm, Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
[...] 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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