Background
Henryk Rodakowski was born on July 9, 1823 in Lviv, Ukraine. He came from a well-known family of lawyers.
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Henryk Rodakowski was born on July 9, 1823 in Lviv, Ukraine. He came from a well-known family of lawyers.
Continuing the family tradition between 1841 and 1845, he studied law in Vienna. Later he studied painting under Joseph Danhauser and Franz Eybl. In the years 1846 to 1867 he lived in Paris, where he continued his studies with Léon Cogniet.
In 1852 he experienced his first major success by painting a portrait of General Henryk Dembiński, which won the first prize. His studio was visited by the famous painter Eugène Delacroix.
In 1867 he left Paris and returned to Poland. He lived in Pałahicze near Stanisławów. At the end of his life he settled in Kraków.
In 1893 he became director and president of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts and chairman of the Committee of the National Museum.
On December 24, 1894, he was nominated for the director of Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, but died unexpectedly four days later. He was buried in Rakowice Cemetery in Kraków.
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1870Portret Dziewczyny Z Wachlarzem
1879Portret Leonii Blühdorn, Pasierbicy Artysty
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1889Portret Alfonsyny Z Miączyńskich Dzieduszyckiej
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1872Portrait of Leon Sapieha
1878Landscape from Bortniki Upon Dniester
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1880In 1866 he was a member of the Polish Historical and Literary Society in Paris.
In 1861 he married the love of his youth, Kamila Blühdorn, nee von Salzgeber, with whom he had two children.
