19 October 1864?C21 August 1915  Related Paintings of Thomas Pakenham :. | Lord Edward Fitzgerald | The Irish House fo Commons addressed by Henry Grattan in 1780 during the campaign to force Britain to give Ireland free trade and legislative independ | Theobald Wolfe Tone,the 33-year-old | Charles James Fox,the British leader of the opposition | General Lazare Hoche the 28-year-old |
Related Artists:
Ernst Sigismund Kirchbach
painted The Forge of Vulcan in between 1869 and 1875
Ferdinand Leeke
German, 1859-1925
Aleksander Lesser
(May 13, 1814 - March 13, 1884) was a Polish painter and art critic of Jewish descent. Lesser specialized in Polish historic and contemporary themes. He was a member of Krakew Academy of Learning and co-founder of Warsaw's Zachęta, the Society for Encouragement of the Fine Arts. Lesser studied painting at Warsaw University's department of fine arts, as well as at art schools in Dresden and Munich. He was a founder of the history-painting movement in Poland, which is considered a part of the "archeological trend" that existed before Jan Matejko. The trend's purpose was to portray the entire history of Poland in works of art.