Charles MILLER, STUDY OF AN ACT WITH A LIBER, ca. 1855

Carbon, chalk, beige paper; 72 x 55 cm
L.d. stamp of the Warsaw School of Fine Arts; signed on the reverse: K. Миллеръ / N 40.
Karol MILLER
1835 Częstochowa - 1920 Częstochowa
Studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts under K.Kaniewski, R. Hadziewicz and M. Zaleski (1851-1857). Then, as a scholarship holder of the Enlightenment Commission, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. In 1873 he was awarded the title Klassnyy chudozhnik II degree for his painting Stanislav Augustus receiving artists in Lazienki and for Portrait of Mr. Dubrovsky. He exhibited constantly at the TZSP in Warsaw, several times in the Warsaw salons of Aleksander Krywult and Jozef Ungra, and at the TPSP in Krakow. He also participated in exhibitions in Philadelphia (1876), Paris (1878) and Vienna (1886). Initially he painted historical scenes and views, as well as genre scenes. Later he specialized in portraiture (H. Modrzejewska as Ophelia, W. Rapacki as Hamlet, A Wilkońska). He also painted religious paintings.
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