Václav Jansa

Václav Jansa (22 October 1859, Slatinice, near Most – 29 June 1913, Černošice) was a Czech landscape painter and illustrator; best known for his watercolors of the Old Town in Prague.

When he was still a boy, his parents were hired as servants for Johann Joseph, Count Herberstein [de] (1854–1944), so they moved to Solany, near Děčany in Litoměřice District.

Later, he transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where his instructors were Eduard von Lichtenfels and Leopold Carl Müller.

It was called Pobití Sasíků pod Hrubou Skálou (The Slaughter of the Saxons at Hrubá Skála, commemorating a 13th-century Czech victory) and measured 8.5 by 10 meters (28 by 33 feet).

Ironically, the small village where he was born was razed in the late 1960s, to make room for the expansion of a coal mine.