Alfred Schouppé

Alfred Schouppé (born December 13, 1812, in Grabownica Starzeńska, died April 7, 1899, in Krynica-Zdrój) was a Polish painter, and one of the founders of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts (Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych) in Warsaw.

[1] Studied in Kraków, where he was a student of Jan Nepomucen Głowacki and Józef Richter in Warsaw.

In 1837, by gaining a scholarship Schouppé began studying at the Accademia di San Luca, returning to Warsaw in 1840.

He took part in a number of foreign travels, and after going into retirement in 1897 he moved out of Warsaw.

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