Alfred Isidore Römer

Alfred Isidore Romer. Portrait by Stanisław Jakub Rostworowski

Alfred Izydor Romer (Römer or Roemer, ; 16 May 1832 – 24 January 1897) was a Polish-Lithuanian painter, sculptor, printmaker and medallist from the family of Baltic-German origins, who worked in what is now Lithuania and Belarus.

Biography Born in Vilnius, he was descended from a noble family that had settled in Courland in the 16th-Century. His father was Edward Jan Römer, a painter, writer and social activist. His grandfather was Michał Józef Römer, a politician who favored the abolition of serfdom.

In 1863 he was arrested and imprisoned at Dinaburg Fortress for organising the uprising in Lithuania. After his release in 1865, he sold his estate and lived with father.

In 1867 he went abroad again visiting a number of countries - Bohemia, Switzerland, Germany. He spent a longer time in Paris, where he studied under Leon Bonnat and Antoni Oleszczyński. On 16 April 1871 he went to Bayeurx, then to Munich, where he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, continuing his studies with and Arthur von Ramberg. He also made a study trip to Italy with fellow student Albert von Keller, painting portraits of local aristocrats and copying Veronese. This was followed by a series of exhibitions in Munich, Paris and Kraków.

In 1874 he moved to an estate near , Pastavy Raion, that was owned by his new wife, countess Wanda Sulistrowska (1853–1944). His only daughter was Helena Romer-Ochenkowska.