"Farewell of Waclaw and Maria", 1856, oil on canvas, 83 x 111.5 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"Portrait of Julia Simmler", 1863, oil on canvas, 135 x 95 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"Study of Male Nude", oil on cardboard, 55 x 35.5 cm, private collection

"Queen Jadwiga's Oath", National Museum, Warsaw
"Portrait of Mary Rosa and Rosa Mary Caroline Kronenberg with a Dog", 1860, oil on canvas, 156 x 105 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"Portrait of Mr Genelli", oil on canvas, 83.5 x 65.5 cm, private collection

"Entombment", 1852, oil on canvas, 73 x 196.5 cm, private collection
"Portrait of Emilia Wlodkowska", 1865, oil on canvas, 175 x 202 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"Death of Barbara Radziwillowna", 1860, oil on canvas, 205 x 234 cm, National Museum, Warsaw

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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