Aniela Pająkówna

Aniela Pająkówna (1864 – 24 April 1912) was a Polish painter, mostly of portraits. Her daughter was the dramatist Stanisława Przybyszewska.

Biography She was born in Medyka. Her father was a coachman. Thanks to the generosity of his employers, the journalist and political activist and his wife Helena (née Dzieduszycka), she was able to study art; first at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków with Florian Cynk then, after 1886, in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi with Carolus-Duran and Jean-Jacques Henner. She also spent some time studying in Munich.

In 1891, she returned to Poland, settled in Lwów and set up her own studio. She had her first exhibition at the Society of Friends of Fine Art in 1896.