Brief Biography-Wincenty Leopold Sleńdziński who was born in the Jonava district, was instructed by the Lithuanian artist Kanuty Rusiecki after initially receiving lessons from his father, Aleksander. In 1861, he was bestowed with the title ‘Artist, third degree’ at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. His involvement in the January Uprising led to his detention and eventual exile to Kharkiv in Ukraine until he was freed in 1872. In Krakow Poland, he befriended Jan Matejko before going to Dresden where he became successful as a portraitist. In 1883 he married and settled in Vilnius doing portraiture, restoration and church frescoes. He died in 1909 and was buried in the Bernardine Cemetery, Vilnius.