Education
Henryk Cieszkowski completed his secondary education in Lublin, between the years of 1848 to 1856 he studied at the Schools of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he was taught by Christian Breslauer (1802-1882).
Henryk Cieszkowski completed his secondary education in Lublin, between the years of 1848 to 1856 he studied at the Schools of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he was taught by Christian Breslauer (1802-1882).
In 1858, he gained a scholarship and moved to Rome, where he lived permanently. Most of the artist"s artwork are landscape paintings of Rome and its surroundings. Mainly the Roman Campagna.
He marked these paintings with H. Cieszkowski Roma.
During his lifetime in the twentieth century, his paintings were most popularly sold in Italy, to Great Britain, and the United States of America. Currently, the artist"s artwork is located inter alia in: National Museum in Warsaw, Krakow, and Poznań.
Between the years of 2000 to 2010 several of the artist"s artwork have appeared at the Christie"s Auction House in Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.