Stanisław Kaczor-Batowski

Born in Lwów (then Lemberg in Austro-Hungarian Galicia, now Lviv, Ukraine), in 1885 he graduated from the Kraków-based Academy of Fine Arts.

A student of Florian Cynk and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, he moved to Vienna and then Munich, where he studied under the tutelage of Alexander von Liezen-Mayer between 1887 and 1889.

[1] A fan of Henryk Sienkiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki and Jan Matejko, Kaczor-Batowski specialized in historicist paintings, usually related to Poland's martial history.

Among the best known of his works is the Polish Thermopylae (Battle of Zadwórze) and Pułaski at Savannah.

The last painting is currently owned and permanently displayed at The Polish Museum in Chicago.