Teodor Bogdan Lubieniecki (c. 1654,

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– 1718,

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) was a

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painter and engraver.

Biography

Teodor and his brother Krzysztof Lubieniecki hailed from an

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family. They learned to paint from Juriaan Stur in Hamburg. In 1667 they travelled to Amsterdam, where Krzysztof became an apprentice of

Adriaen Backer Adriaen Backer (ca 1635, Amsterdam — buried 23 May 1684, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter, active in Amsterdam and Haarlem. Biography Backer was the son of the Mennonite Tjerk Adriaensz and the Remonstrant Marritje Dootsho ...

, and Teodor of Gerard de Lairesse. Teodor enjoyed success in Amsterdam and was visited and admired by

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, who was visiting Amsterdam while on his Grand Tour up the Rhine. In 1682, Teodor moved to Hanover where he found works for the art-loving Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg. He was the court painter of the next elector, later King Frederick I of Prussia, who made Lubieniecki the first curator of his

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in 1702. In 1706 Lubieniecki moved to Poland, which is where he later died.Theodorus en Christoffel Lubienietzky biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

, courtesy of the Digital Library for Dutch Literature

References

External links

* Artnet.com
Teodor (Bogdan) Lubieniecki
1654 births 1718 deaths 17th-century engravers 18th-century engravers Polish engravers 17th-century Polish painters Polish male painters 18th-century Polish–Lithuanian painters 18th-century male artists {{engraver-stub