Painter. He received acclaim in the 19th century as an award-winning Polish painter. Born in the village of Nowosiółki Gościnne, Poland, the village is located since the 20th century in the Ukraine instead of Poland. One of his most noted pieces were twenty-two paintings made in for illustrations for the book, "Quo Vadis," for which author Henryk Seinkiewicz received the Nobel Prize. After World War II, these paintings were thought to be lost during the war, but they were found to be privately owned with some being on exhibition in 1953 in the Detroit Institute of Arts in Michigan. The entire collection of twenty-two Quo Vadis paintings were sold at auction in 2011 and were returned to Poland and are at present in The Henryk Sienkiewicz Museum in Oblegorek. After studying at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Wladyslaw Luszczkiewicz, and Floria Cynk, he continued his studies at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in Germany from 1883 to 1885. He traveled to Italy, Greece, and Jerusalem after graduation. Some of his best-known pastels pieces have the beautiful model Zofia Paluchowa posing in her colorful Polish peasant attire with a scarf covering her hair. This collection are being sold at auction for thousands of dollars. For the huge Basilica of Sacred Heart of Jesus in Krakow, he designed a mosaic piece. During a reorganization period in 1893, he refused an offered to become the director of the Krakow Academy, as accepting the position would require him to dismissed some of his prior instructors. He was the recipient of the Polish Academy of Learning Award for a series of paintings done between 1893 and 1895, which documented the workers in the Wieliczka Salt Mines. Today, these mines are a Polish Natural Monument. All of these award-winning paintings were all lost during World War II but reproductions have been made. He produced a series of religious paintings on The Black Madonna of Częstochowa, a venerated icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is housed at the Jasna Góra Monastery. Legend states that she was originally painted by St. Luke, one of the Twelve Apostles and later visited by St Francis in his travels. The original painting is known as the "Queen of Poland," and around 830,000 pilgrims visit her yearly. Other paintings with a religious theme included several with gigantic-winged angels, others portraying death using dark colors, and one of his most noted, a 1900 oil-on-oak, "Farewell to Christ and Mary." He was co-editor of the bi-weekly art magazine "The World." For noted Polish authors Adam Mickiewicz, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, and Maria Konopnicka, he produced illustrations for their successful publications. This artist produced illustrations for a couple of the oldest preserved posters in Poland: the 1904 Friends of the Fine Art Society Jubilee Exhibition and the 1894 General Exhibition in Lviv. In 1923 he was the recipient of the Order of Rebirth of Poland.