Alexander Kucharsky Alexander Kucharsky (18 March 1741 - 5 November 1819) also Alexandre Kucharsky, was a Polish portrait painter who spent his adult life in France. He himself used the spelling Kucharsky, but Kucharski is also often used. In the past, in France, the name has been given as Couaski. William George Richardson artist (b at Nottingham, Eng 12 June 1833; d at Sussex, NB 18 Nov 1889)