Wladyslaw STACHOWSKI (1852-1932), "Market."

oil, cardboard, 24 x 34 cm,
Signed p.d.: W. Stachowski / Kraków. Radziwill. 15/III.

Painter, son of a Polish exile, studied at the St. Petersburg academy from 1879 to 1888, with a six-year break in the United States. In 1904 he went to Munich, and the following year traveled to the Caucasus, from where he escaped to Munich in 1917. In 1919 he came to Poland and settled in Warsaw. He painted marine motifs, landscapes, genre scenes and studies of horses.