Kornylo Ustiyanovych

From 1858 to 1863, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he studied under the Polish painter, Artur Grottger.

While there, he was influenced by the works of Józef Bohdan Zaleski and his political views were altered from Pan-Slavism to Ukrainian patriotism.

After 1872, he lived in Kyiv, where he began writing poems on folklore themes that were published in several journals devoted to the Ukrainian arts.

From 1873 to 1874, he lived in what is now Chortkiv Raion, with the family of Volodyslav Fyodorovych [uk], painting portraits and landscapes.

Over the course of his career, he created icons and murals for over fifty churches and painted approximately forty portraits.