Henryk Cieszkowski Pejzaz wloski z ruinami

Henryk Cieszkowski (1835–1895) was a Polish painter. Henryk Cieszkowski completed his secondary education in Lublin, between the years of 1848 to 1856 he studied at the Schools of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he was taught by Christian Breslauer (1802-1882). In 1858, he gained a scholarship and moved to Rome, where he lived permanently. From 1860, the artist sent his artwork to Warsaw to the Society of the Incentive for Fine Arts (Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych) and Krywult's Salon (Salon Krywulta); and to Kraków, to the Society of Friends of Fine Arts (Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych). His friend Henryk Siemiradzki, moved to Italy from Munich, Germany in 1872.