Kazimierz Wojniakowski
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Kazimierz Wojniakowski was a Polish
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Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 painter.

Works

His work as a portraitist was influenced by that of the Polish painter Józef Grassi, as in Wojniakowski's 1796 Portrait of Izabela Czartoryska, née
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Fleming.

Other note-worthy portraits by Wojniakowski include his portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
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.

Wojniakowski also produced religious works and scenes of contemporary historic events (e.g., The Constitution of May 3, 1791
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, 1806).

Notable as well are Wojniakowski's drawings from journeys, e.g. in Lublin Province.
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