Henryk Weyssenhoff

[1] In 1874, his father was pardoned, but they were not allowed to return to their old home, so they settled in Warsaw, where he studied painting with Wojciech Gerson.

His work there attracted the attention of Henryk Siemiradzki who, in 1880, helped him gain admission to the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.

[1] He graduated in 1885, earning a silver medal and the official title of "Artist" for his canvas "Transport of the Wounded".

As a result, from 1903 to 1904 he lived in Paris, then settled on his parents' estate near Pukhavichy, in what is now Belarus.

In addition to his painting, he illustrated several works, notably two by his cousin, Józef Weyssenhoff; Erotyki (1911), a book of poetry, and Soból i Panna (1913),[2] a novel that is loosely based on the manorial lifestyle of the Weyssenhoff family.