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Henryk Pillati
Henryk Pillati

Henryk Pillati

Polish, 1832-1894
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Henryk Pillati was a Polish illustrator, caricaturist and history painter, in the Classical style.

He was born to a wealthy family. In 1845, at age thirteen, he entered the School of Fine Arts [pl] in Warsaw. Three years later, both of his parents died during a cholera epidemic. This forced him to leave school and find work to support his surviving younger siblings.

He managed to get by selling small paintings of genre scenes and episodes from the Polish-Swedish wars. From 1852 to 1853, he created a series of large canvases, designed for decorating steamships owned by Count Andrzej Artur Zamoyski, on the Vistula River. The ships were later confiscated by the Russians during the January Uprising.

Later, he received private scholarships that enabled him to spend a year studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Four years later, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, then spent some time in Rome.

After 1860, although he continued to paint historical scenes, he was primarily engaged in providing illustrations for books (notably works by Adam Mickiewicz and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski) and several periodicals in Warsaw, including the Tygodnik Illustrowany, Kłosy [pl] (Ears), Wędrowiec [pl] (The Wanderer) and Biesiada Literacka [pl] (Literary Feast).

In 1879, he moved to Saint Petersburg to work for a publishing house, but his increasing alcoholism ruined his health to the point that his younger brother, Ksawery [pl], who was also a painter, had to bring him home, where he spent his final years living in the residence of the Warsaw Charitable Society. His life was later given fictional treatment in the novel Malaria by Wiktor Gomulicki.

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Escape

Escape (1870)

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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Funeral of the Five Victims of the Manifestation of 1861 in Warsaw

Funeral of the Five Victims of the Manifestation of 1861 in Warsaw (1865)

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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Return of the ‘Lisowczycy’

Return of the ‘Lisowczycy’ (1868)

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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After the battle – The Swedes in Poland in 1655

After the battle – The Swedes in Poland in 1655

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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Battle of Lithuanians with the Teutonic knights

Battle of Lithuanians with the Teutonic knights

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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Convoy of the wounded

Convoy of the wounded (1868)

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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Death of Berek Joselewicz in Kock

Death of Berek Joselewicz in Kock (1867)

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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Eastern scene – Selling horses

Eastern scene – Selling horses (1867)

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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In a peasant cottage

In a peasant cottage

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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In front of the church

In front of the church (1862)

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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Light cavalryman charging

Light cavalryman charging

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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Robbers

Robbers

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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Street fiddler

Street fiddler (1863)

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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Wounded uhlan by the wayside shrine

Wounded uhlan by the wayside shrine (1853)

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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Iron-Gate Square

Iron-Gate Square (1853)

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
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Ruins of the castle – merry-making in Tenczynek

Ruins of the castle – merry-making in Tenczynek (circa 1855)

Henryk Pillati (Polish, 1832-1894)
Landscape

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