Antoni Oleszczyński (16 January 1794,

Krasnystaw Krasnystaw ( uk, Красностав, Krasnostav) is a town in southeastern Poland with 18 630 inhabitants (31 december 2019). Situated in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Chełm Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the capital o ...

- 28 February 1879,

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) was a Polish graphic artist and copperplate engraver.

Biography

His father was a magistrate. While working for the Ministry of Education in Warsaw, he presented samples of his calligraphy to Ministry headquarters and was sent at government expense, from 1817 to 1824, to study at the

Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...

in Saint Petersburg with

Nikolai Utkin Nikolai Ivanovich Utkin (russian: Николай Иванович Уткин; 19 May 1780 – 17 March 1863) was a Russian graphic artist, engraver and illustrator. He also served as curator of prints at the Hermitage and superintendent of the mu ...

,Biographical notes
@ Miłośnicy Grafiki. where he received several silver medals. Upon graduating, he was awarded a gold medal for his engraving of

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, after a portrait by

Dmitry Levitzky Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky (russian: Дмитрий Григорьевич Левицкий, May 1735 – 17 April 1822) was a Russian portrait painter and Academician. Biography He was born to , a priest, who was also an amateur painter and ...

. He then went to Paris, again at government expense, where he worked in the studios of the painter

Jean-Baptiste Regnault Jean-Baptiste Regnault (9 October 1754 – 12 November 1829) was a French painter. Biography Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to I ...

and the engraver

Théodore Richomme Théodore Richomme (28 May 1785, Paris - 22 September 1849, Paris) was a French engraver. A street in the 18th arrondissement of Paris is named after him. Life A student of Jacques Joseph Coiny, Théodore Richomme won the prix de Rome in 1806. ...

. After that, he spent four years in

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. In 1832, he received an offer of employment at the Academy, but he chose to become part of the

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and settled in Paris, where he remained until his death. He contributed engravings to several "clandestine" Polish language publications including ''Babin na obcej ziemi'' (Babin in a Strange Land, by the "

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")Listing
@ the

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. and issued two albums with text; ''Rozmaitości polskie'' (Polish Miscellany, 1833) and ''Wspomnienia o polakach, co słynęli w obcych i odległych krajach'' (Memories of the Poles who became famous in foreign countries, 1843). He also illustrated the Polish history of

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and several works by

Leonard Chodźko Leonard Borejko Chodźko (1800–1871) was a Polish historian, geographer, cartographer, publisher, archivist, and activist of Poland's post- November-1830-Uprising Great Emigration. Life Chodźko was educated at the University of Vilnius, wher ...

. His younger brothers both became artists. was an engraver for the

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and Władysław was a noted sculptor.

Selected portraits

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Tadeusz Kościuszko Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko ( be, Andréj Tadévuš Banavientúra Kasciúška, en, Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko; 4 or 12 February 174615 October 1817) was a Polish Military engineering, military engineer, statesman, an ...

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Andrzej Artur Zamoyski Count Andrzej Artur Zamoyski (2 April 1800 – 29 October 1874) was a Polish nobleman, landowner and political and economic activist. Zamoyski organized meetings of landowners (''Klemensowczycy'') at his Klemensów estate in the Polish Congr ...

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Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal Joanna of Austria (in Castilian, ''Doña Juana de Austria''; in Portuguese, ''Dona Joana de Áustria'', 24 June 1535 – 7 September 1573) was Princess of Portugal by marriage to João Manuel, Prince of Portugal. She served as regent of S ...

File:Stanisłaŭ Jundził. Станіслаў Юндзіл (A. Oleszczyński, 1852).jpg,

Stanisław Bonifacy Jundziłł Stanisław Bonifacy Jundziłł or, in Lithuanian, Stanislovas Bonifacas Jundzilas (6 May 1761 in Jasiańce, Voranava District – 15 April 1847 in Vilnius) was a Polish-Lithuanian priest, botanist, educator and diarist who lectured at the Un ...

File:Antoni Oleszczyński Portret Mikołaja Kopernika 1841.jpg,

Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic Church, Catholic cano ...

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Biography

Selected portraits

References

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