Franciszek Pfanhauser (27 December 1796,

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– 1865,

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) was a Polish painter, teacher, art collector and restorer; known mostly for his portraits.

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His father was a well-to-do craftsman who had emigrated from Austria. He began his art studies at the

Warsaw Lyceum The Warsaw Lyceum ( pl, Liceum Warszawskie; german: Königlich-Preußisches Lyzäum zu Warschau) was a secondary school that existed in Warsaw, under the Kingdom of Prussia and under the Kingdom of Poland, from 1804 to its closing in 1831 by Imper ...

with

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and Marcello Bacciarelli. In 1817, he enrolled with the Faculty of Fine Arts at the

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.Brief biography
@ the Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny. Later, he received government scholarships that enabled him to study in Vienna and Rome; sending back paintings for exhibitions in Warsaw. Initially, he sent copies of works by

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and Correggio but, by 1825, was sending original compositions, including renditions of Władysław Jagiełło marrying

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and the blind

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being led by

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. After his scholarships expired in 1830, he remained in Rome at his own expense. He returned to Poland in 1834 and, three years later, married a painter named Amelia Lepigé, who he had met at an art auction. At that time, he began to specialize in portraits. Some of his notable sitters included

Maria Szymanowska Maria Szymanowska (Polish pronunciation: ; born Marianna Agata Wołowska; Warsaw, 14 December 1789 – 25 July 1831, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Polish composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century. She tour ...

and General

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. Later, he also painted religious works; notably an "

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" for St. John's Archcathedral (destroyed in 1944). Many of his works were, in fact, lost or destroyed during the Second World War. In the late 1830s, he did restorative work at the gallery in Łazienki Palace. He was also an avid art collector and owned works by

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and

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. In 1844, a major exhibit of his collection took place in Saint Petersburg. In 1836, he established his own art school, which he operated until 1848, when he and his wife emigrated to Italy in the wake of the Greater Poland Uprising. After that, he apparently cut off all ties with Poland and seems to have focused on collecting art and antiquities, rather than painting.

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