Jan Ciągliński

Jan Ciągliński (; ; 20 February 1858 – 6 January 1913) was a Polish painter, active in St. Petersburg during the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II. His works are considered to be the first examples of Russian Impressionism. From 1879 to 1885, he attended the Imperial Academy of Arts. He went back to Poland, but was there only a short time before receiving a highly remunerative offer of work in Saint Petersburg. He returned there to execute the commission and decided to remain. In 1894, he studied briefly in Paris. As an amateur pianist, many of his portraits were of musicians, including Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Anton Rubinstein and Josef Hofmann.

Although he was better known in Russia, his last will and testament bequeathed his works to Poland. By 1922, most of them had been transferred there. As consequence of the Soviet annexations during World War II, some of these works are now in Ukraine.

His brother, , was a prominent neurologist who wrote several pioneering works in medical statistics. His uncle was Roman Żuliński, a mathematician and leader in the January Uprising.

Selected paintings