Wincenty Leopold Sleńdziński
1838-1909 Lithuania/Portraitist
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Brief Biography-Wincenty Leopold Sleńdziński, born in the Jonava district, was instructed by the Lithuanian artist Kanuty Rusiecki after initially receiving lessons from his father, Aleksander. In 1861, he gained "Artist, third-degree" at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. However, his involvement in the January Uprising led to his detention and eventual exile to Kharkiv in Ukraine; they freed him in 1872. In Krakow, Poland, he befriended Jan Matejko before going to Dresden. In 1883 he married and settled in Vilnius, doing portraiture, restoration and church frescoes. He died in 1909 and is buried in the Bernardine Cemetery, Vilnius. |
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