Artist

Henryk Siemiradzki

1843–1902 · born in Pechenihy · died in Strzałków, Łódź Voivodeship

Henryk Siemiradzki was born in what is now Ukraine to a Polish family and studied in Saint Petersburg, Munich and Rome. He lived mainly in Rome, where he painted giant, sunny pictures of ancient Greece and Rome. He was one of the most successful painters in Europe. He died in 1902.