Antoni Oleszczyński

Antoni Oleszczyński (16 January 1794, Krasnystaw – 28 February 1879, Paris) was a Polish graphic artist and copperplate engraver.

Biography His father was a magistrate. While working for the Ministry of Education in Warsaw, he presented samples of his calligraphy to Ministry headquarters and was sent at government expense, from 1817 to 1824, to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg with Nikolai Utkin, where he received several silver medals.

Upon graduating, he was awarded a gold medal for his engraving of Alexander Kokorinov, after a portrait by Dmitry Levitzky. He then went to Paris, again at government expense, where he worked in the studios of the painter Jean-Baptiste Regnault and the engraver Théodore Richomme. and issued two albums with text; Rozmaitości polskie (Polish Miscellany, 1833) and Wspomnienia o polakach, co słynęli w obcych i odległych krajach (Memories of the Poles who became famous in foreign countries, 1843). He also illustrated the Polish history of Lucjan Siemieński and several works by Leonard Chodźko.

His younger brothers both became artists. was an engraver for the Bank of Poland and Władysław was a noted sculptor.

Selected portraits