Franciszek Pfanhauser

Franciszek Pfanhauser (27 December 1796, Warsaw – 1865, Florence) was a Polish painter, teacher, art collector and restorer; known mostly for his portraits.

[1] Later, he received government scholarships that enabled him to study in Vienna and Rome; sending back paintings for exhibitions in Warsaw.

Initially, he sent copies of works by Titian and Correggio but, by 1825, was sending original compositions, including renditions of Władysław Jagiełło marrying Jadwiga and the blind Oedipus being led by Antigone.

He returned to Poland in 1834 and, three years later, married a painter named Amelia Lepigé, who he had met at an art auction.

In 1836, he established his own art school, which he operated until 1848, when he and his wife emigrated to Italy in the wake of the Greater Poland Uprising.