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ALEXANDER ORLOWSKI Man with Hookah
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ALEXANDER ORLOWSKI Man with Hookah
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Lithograph, St. Petersburg, 1819. Hand coloured, with monogram and date
14cm x 20cm
Alexander Orlowski was born at Warsaw in 1777 and died at St. Petersburg
in 1832. He was born into a well-to-do Polish family; his father had an inn in the small
provincial town of Sedlitz. There, the boy met princess Isabella Czartoryskich, who was
impressed by the boy’s pictures. She sent Alexander, in 1793, for professional training to the
Warsaw studio of Jan Piotr Norblin and M. Boccarelli, the court painter of the princes of
Czartoryskichs. The early, Warsaw period, of his artistic activity is marked with an interest
for the national liberation movement of the Polish people under the leadership of Thaddeus
Kosciuszko. In 1794, Orlowski was a volunteer in a partisan group of Kosciuszko. After the
defeat of the liberation movement, Orlowski for some time worked with a troupe of
traveling actors. In 1802, he moved to Lithuania, and then came to St. Petersburg, where he
lived to the end of his life. Under the patronage of prince Adam Czartoryskich, he was
admitted into the service of the Grand Duke Constantin Pavlovich. A talented painter,
draftsman and graphic artist, Orlowski created a lot of graphic works, pastels, and
watercolours of romantic character. In 1809, he was awarded the title of Academician.
Genre watercolours depicting working people and scenes from the life of the high society
showed us the life of St. Petersburg of the time. Portraiture takes up a big part of his
activities. In 1816, Orlowski, one of the first, tried lithography and published several series
of lithographic works, which were appreciated by his contemporaries. After 1819 he worked
as a graphic artist for the Topographic Department of the Army Headquarters. He travelled
much throughout Russia and Persia and created many genre including battle pictures and
local costumes, as well as portraits of his contemporaries. The painter was a member of a
maison loge, forbidden by Alexander I, he was friends with the progressive Russian
intellectuals: Ivan Krylov, Alexander Pushkin, Petr Vyasemsky, Denis Davydov, and others.
His lithographs of Persia were published both as standalone lithographs as well as in book
form in “Atlas ou Collection de 40 Dessins lithographiés par A. Orlowskj, Pour Servir Au
Voyage en Perse, Fait pendant les années 1812 et 1813, par Gaspard Drouville, Colonel De
Cavalerie au Service de S. M. L’Empereur De Toutes Les Russies Et Chavalier De Plusieurs
Ordres. (St. Petersburg, 1820)” and “Collection de Costumes Persans Civils et Militaires,
Dessinés d’après Nature par Alexandre Orlowski (St. Petersburg, 1822)”. Orlowski and Ker
Porter are the only non-Iranian artists who have painted Fathali Shah from life.
14cm x 20cm.