Octav Băncilă was a Romanian realist painter and left-wing activist. He was the brother of Sofia Nădejde, a feminist journalist, and the brother-in-law of Ioan Nădejde.
Octav Băncilă
Vasile (Basil), the butler of the Arizan household, 1897
End of Leave, 1898
Good Deal, 1899
Sofia Nădejde was a Romanian novelist, playwright, translator, journalist, women's rights activist and socialist.
Nădejde in 1910, portrait by her brother Octav Băncilă