Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder
Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder was an Austrian-Italian historical and portrait painter. He settled in the Russian Empire after the third and final partition of Poland, enticed by an extremely generous offer from the Tsar.
Self-portrait (1808/10)
King Stanisław II August (1788-1789), National Museum in Warsaw
Countess Zavadskaya with her daughter
Catherine II of Russia (circa 1791), Łazienki Palace
Franciszek Ksawery Lampi, also known as Franz Xaver Lampi, was a Polish Romantic painter born in Austria of ethnic Italian background. He was associated with the aristocratic circle of the late Stanisław II Augustus, the last Polish king before the foreign partitions of Poland. Lampi settled in Warsaw around 1815 at the age of 33, and established himself as the leading landscape and portrait artist in Congress Poland soon after Napoleon's defeat in Russia.
Portrait of Lampi by Joseph Sonntag (1834)
Romantic scenery, c.1820/30
Castaways at strands, 1840
Mountain waterfall, ca.1830