Józef Peszka

His first drawing lessons were with Dominik Oesterreicher [pl], an Austrian painter living in Kraków.

[2] After that, until 1812, he took numerous trips throughout Lithuania and Russia, where he created watercolor and sepia toned landscapes with staffage as well as some vedute.

[1] From 1807 to 1810, he lingered in Niasvizh where he served as a court painter to Prince Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł.

[1] In 1818, he helped organize the newly established School of Fine Arts and became a Professor there.

[2] During that time, he concentrated on painting portraits; mostly of military heroes, wealthy businessmen and their families and figures of the Polish Enlightenment.