Aleksander Gryglewski

Until 1852, he attended the public schools in Krosno, then took courses in drawing at the Academy in Kraków.

Gryglewski returned to Krakow in 1860 and spent the next nine years doing interior portraits of the city's famous buildings; mostly churches.

His paintings were reproduced as woodcuts in several publications throughout the early 1870s, including Kłosy (Ears of Corn) and Tygodnik Illustrowany.

He produced similar portraits in Prague and Vienna from 1870 to 1872, notably St. Stephen's Cathedral.

While there, overwhelmed by serious financial problems and depressed by his separation from his wife, he committed suicide by jumping from one of the Town Hall's windows.