signed l.d.: St. Wolski | 1891
Stanislaw Pomian Wolski - painter and draughtsman; began his studies in painting with Wojciech Gerson at the Warsaw Drawing Class, and continued them at the Cracow School of Fine Arts under Jan Matejko. Thanks to a private scholarship, he went to Munich and in 1883-1885 he studied further at the Academy of Fine Arts and in the private studio of Jozef Brandt. He was a very talented artist, and his paintings were so popular on the Munich art market that he "sold them on stalls to numerous German Kunsthandlers." In 1886, he returned to Warsaw, where he began working with the Illustrated Weekly. He painted mainly paintings with historical and battle themes - reconnaissances, skirmishes, soldiers' bivouacs. He was particularly fond of painting scenes from the Napoleonic campaign. He also created genre paintings - serene scenes of Warsaw parks and streets, road accidents, hunting and, interestingly, circus scenes.
