Władysław Łuszczkiewicz[1] (3 September 1828 – 23 May 1900) was a Polish historian and painter of the late Romantic era from Kraków, active in the period of the foreign partitions of Poland.

[3] Władysław Łuszczkiewicz was born in Kraków in 1828 and after graduating from St Anne High School (where his father Michał of the Rola coat of arms was a professor),[4] he enrolled at the Department of History of the Jagiellonian University.

At the same time, he began to study painting at the School of Fine Arts with Wojciech Stattler and Jan Nepomucen Głowacki.

Among his students (aside from Matejko) were the future luminaries of Polish art of the turn-of-the-century including Artur Grottger, Aleksander Kotsis, Józef Mehoffer, Jacek Malczewski, Stanisław Wyspiański and Wojciech Weiss.

[5] In 1886 he and curator Teodor Nieczui-Ziemięcki entered Konstanty Schmidt-Ciążyński's engraved gem collection into the inventory of the National Museum.