Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right: “L. Szpadkowski 1884”.
Dimensions with frame: 81x96 cm (58x73 cm)
Ludomir Szpadkowski (Derbent 1855–1908 Warsaw) was a Polish painter and professor. He lived in Warsaw from 1858, where he graduated from high school. From 1877 to 1883, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków under the guidance of Izydor Jabłoński, Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, Florian Cynk, and Ferndynand Löffler. In 1877, he visited the Carpathians; in 1878, Vienna and Tyrol; and in 1879, Munich. In 1880, he traveled to Hungary, where he attended the unveiling of the monument to Józef Bem in Maros Vaserhely, Transylvania. He exhibited in 1883 at the TPSP in Kraków, and from 1885 at the Krywult Salon and the TZSP in Warsaw. He took part in a temporary art exhibition in Łódź in 1889. In 1899, he was one of the founders of the United Artists, Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Society, established in Warsaw to promote decorative and religious art. He is buried at Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw. His works are rare on the antique market.
