Henryk Pillati

[1] He managed to get by selling small paintings of genre scenes and episodes from the Polish-Swedish wars.

From 1852 to 1853, he created a series of large canvases, designed for decorating steamships owned by Count Andrzej Artur Zamoyski, on the Vistula River.

[1] Later, he received private scholarships that enabled him to spend a year studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Four years later, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, then spent some time in Rome.

[2] In 1879, he moved to Saint Petersburg to work for a publishing house, but his increasing alcoholism ruined his health to the point that his younger brother, Ksawery [pl], who was also a painter, had to bring him home, where he spent his final years living in the residence of the Warsaw Charitable Society.