Dimensions: 93.5 x 161 cm
Signed l.d.: 'W. Starykoń Wielogłowski'
Biography
Artur Waclaw Starykoń Wielogłowski is known as a painter of horses, hunting, generic rural scenes, landscapes and portraits. He studied painting in 1879-82 at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow, then studied for 2.5 years at the Munich Academy and for the next three years at the school of R. Huber in Vienna. After his studies, he traveled extensively in Poland, staying with the Radziwill princes in Nesvizh, among others, and lived in Vienna around 1905. He presented his paintings, which he initially signed as Artur, and after 1894 more often as Waclaw Wieloglowski, quite regularly (between 1882 and 1929) at exhibitions at the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. The artist's works were in the collections of the Radziwill, Potocki and Lubomirski dukes, among others.