Edward Mateusz Römer

Edward Mateusz Jan Oktawiusz Römer (Belarusian: Эдвард Матэй Ромер; 19 September 1848, Vologda - 10 February 1900, Lunna) was a Baltic-German painter who lived and worked in the Russian Empire.

[1] He was born in Vologda, where his father had been exiled for supporting the radical politician, Szymon Konarski.

In 1852, they returned home, to Vilnius, and he began his art studies; first with his father (who was an amateur painter), then with Kanuty Rusiecki.

[2] After finishing his public school education in 1867, he enrolled at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, then transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in 1870, where he studied with Hermann Anschütz and Arthur von Ramberg.

In 1873, he had a showing at an exhibit held by the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts and later won a silver medal at an exposition in Lwów.