Ambroży Mieroszewski

Ambroży Mieroszewski

Ambroży Mieroszewski (1802–1884) was a Polish painter who was Frédéric Chopin's first known portraitist.

Life

Mieroszewski was active in Warsaw, in the Kingdom of Poland, at least as early as 1829.

Works

Mieroszewski's works included oil portraits, painted in 1829, of composer Frédéric Chopin (the earliest known portrait of him, and one of the most convincing); his parents — Mikołaj Chopin (1771–1844) and Justyna Chopin, "née" Krzyżanowska (died October 1861, aged 81); Frédéric's older sister Ludwika, and his younger sister Izabela. [ [http://www.polamcon.org/lostart/254.htm] Catalog of Polish paintings lost in World War II.]

All five portraits were the property of Laura Ciechomska of Warsaw when they were lost in the opening days of World War II, in September 1939. Only black-and-white photographs of them survive, [ [http://www.polamcon.org/lostart/254.htm] Catalog of Polish paintings lost in World War II.] though attempts have been made to reconstruct the paintings in color—the portrait of Fryderyk (Frédéric), in 1968 by Anna Chamiec; and the rest, in 1969 by Jan Zamoyski. [ [http://www.chopin.pl/ilustracje1/ilustracje1_en.html] Frederick Chopin Society in Warsaw — Iconography.]

The set of five 1829 portraits of the surviving members of the Chopin family (the youngest child, Emilia, had died of tuberculosis at age 14 in 1827) were painted about a year before Fryderyk would leave Warsaw and his native land forever in November 1830. The 19-year-old composer's portrait provides unique iconographic evidence of the state of his health this early into his precocious career. In 1913 Édouard Ganche wrote that the portrait shows "a youth threatened by tuberculosis. His skin is very white, he has a prominent Adam's apple and sunken cheeks, even his ears show a form characteristic of consumptives." His younger sister Emilia had already died of tuberculosis in 1827, and his father would do so in 1844. [Jachimecki, p. 421.]

ee also

*List of Poles

Notes

References

*Zdzisław Jachimecki, "Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek," "Polski słownik biograficzny", vol. III, Kraków, Polska Akademia Umiejętności, 1937, pp. 420-26.


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