The repression that resulted from the November Uprising, made higher artistic education virtually impossible.

[1] The inaugural Committee of the Society included: Edward Rastawiecki, Justinian Karnicki, Stanisław Zamoyski, Leon Dembowski, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Aleksander Przeździecki; artists: Alfred Schouppe, Józef Simmler, January Suchodolski, Rafał Hadziewicz, Juliusz Kossak, and Konstanty Hegel.

In December 1900, the newly designed building became the official location of the Society, commonly known as Zachęta (Encouragement).

[2] On 16 December 1922, President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz was assassinated at Zachęta while viewing an exhibition dedicated to modern Polish painting, only five days after taking office.

[4] It reopened in 1949 as the Central Bureau of Art Exhibitions (Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych or CBWA), becoming an official arm of cultural propaganda of the nascent Stalinist regime.