Alfred Izydor Romer

Alfred Izydor Romer (Römer or Roemer, Belarusian: Альфрэд Ізідор Ромер; 16 May 1832, Vilnius – 24 January 1897, Karalinova, Pastavy Raion) was a Polish-Lithuanian painter, sculptor, printmaker and medallist from the family of Baltic-German origins, who worked in what is now Lithuania and Belarus.

He also contributed prints and drawings of rural life to a Polish illustrated magazine called Kłosy (Ears of Wheat).

He spent a longer time in Paris, where he studied under Leon Bonnat and Antoni Oleszczyński.

[2] He also made a study trip to Italy with fellow student Albert von Keller, painting portraits of local aristocrats and copying Veronese.

[4] Romer collected old documents and manuscripts, which he send to Polish museums Kraków and Lviv.

He moved to Kraków in 1884, and lived there for nice years while serving on the Art Commission of the Polish Academy of Learning.

[4] In addition to his portraits and drawings, he created religious works at several churches; most notably the "Madonna of Pinsk".