Jan Maszkowski

Jan Kanty Ignacy Maszkowski (1794–1865) was a Polish painter; known for portraits, history and genre paintings.

Life and work He displayed artistic skills from an early age. A local landowner named Jozef Levitzky took note and helped him enroll in the School of Drawing at the University of Lviv, where he studied from 1813 to 1818, under the pastellist, Józef Buisset (1776-1832). He then spent three years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His primary instructors there were Heinrich Füger and Johann Baptist von Lampi.

This was followed by studies in Rome, at the Accademia di San Luca, While there, he also visited Naples, Florence and Venice. In 1824 his patron, Levitzky, demanded that he return home, which he did, after a brief stay in Vienna. Once there, he focused on painting portraits and genre scenes in Volhynia and Podolia, and had his own workshop in Dubno.

From 1834 to 1843, he taught drawing at his alma mater, the university. When they closed the drawing school, he established his own school of painting at his workshop in Lviv. His pupils included Artur Grottger, Juliusz Kossak, Feliks Jan Szczęsny Morawski, Aleksander Raczyński, Henryk Rodakowski, Franciszek Tepa, and his son . Portrait of Marceli Maszkowski, his son (1856); Ivan Gonty, Cossack's commander, guilty of massacre in Humań (Ivan Gonty, dowódca kozacki, winny rzezi na Humaniu, watercolour on paper, 1859); Genre paintings: In tavern in Podolia (W karczmie na Podolu, 1851); Party in Sofijówka (Zabawa w Sofijówce, 1849) Parents bless youth (Rodzice błogosławią młodość) Mrs. Twardowska and Mr. Twardowski (Pani Twardowska and Pan Twardowski, 1859, – ill. to the ballad by Adam Mickiewicz); Cracovian Wedding (Krakowskie wesele) Plays in matrimony (Gra w mariasza); Late afternoon scene near table (Scena podwieczorna przy stole) Woman giving services Jews usurers (Kobieta dająca zastaw Żydom lichwiarzom) Peasant's courtships to girl (Zaloty chłopa do dziewczyny); Young married woman from peripheries Tarnopola in XVIII c. (Młoda mężatka z peryferii Tarnopola w XVIII wieku, watercolour on paper, 1859); Peasant from Podolia (Podolski chłop, watercolour on paper, 1856); Jewish musician in carnival (Grajek-żyd na zapustach, watercolour on paper, 1859); Sabbath day (Szabas, 1857) Jewish musician [playing] on Double-bass in XVIII c. (Żyd-grajek na Basetli w XVIII wieku 1859), Jewish musician [playing] on Cymbals (Żyd-grajek na Cymbałach) Religious paintings: St. Tecla and Michael the Archangel, (Św. Tekla i archanioł Michał) 1830 (in Kodeń) St. Teresa and St. Michael the Archangel; (Św. Teresa i Św. Michał archanioł) Holy Family, (Święta Rodzina); The Mother of God, (Bogurodzica in Dubno) Matka Boska Częstochowska (for Bernardine church in Sokal) St. Barbra, (Św. Barbara for Bernardine order in Lvov) Holy Trynity and Mother of God (Św. Trójcę i Bogarodzica for Church in Seret) Landscapes: Waterfall, (Wodospad).