Artist

Franciszek Tepa

Portrait of Franciszek Tepa
Portrait of Franciszek Tepa

Polish, 1829–1889

Franciszek Tepa was a Polish Biedermeier artist. 7 works are cataloged here, principally at National Museum in Warsaw. Franciszek Tepa was born in Lviv.

Franciszek Tomasz Tepa (17 September 1829, in Lwów – 23 December 1889, in Lwów) was a Polish mid-19th century realist painter who specialized in portraits and Orientalist themes. During the Revolutions of 1848 (also known as the Spring of Nations), Tepa became politically involved in the independence movement. He produced a series of portraits of Polish leaders of the November Uprising against the foreign Partitions of Poland including Joachim Lelewel, Józef Dwernicki and Józef Chłopicki among many others; and was jailed as political prisoner while in the Austro-Hungarian capital of Vienna.

Works by Franciszek Tepa

Collections represented

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