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Ivan Yakovlevitch PESCORSKY (1757 - after 1818) Amalia Oginska, c. 1808 Lead pencil. Signed lower left. Identified lower right. 16.5 x 14 cm Amelia Załuska z Ogińskich born in 1805, is the daughter of Michał Kleofas Ogiński and Maria de Neri. Her composer father and Italian singer mother instilled in her a passion for the arts, and music in particular. She herself became a composer. Her 1808 portrait by François-Xavier Fabre is well known. A little earlier, in 1805 or 1806, the artist also painted his father (both portraits are preserved in Lithuania, at the Ciurlionis Museum in Kaunas and the National Museum in Vilnius). Ivan Yakovlevitch Pescorsky (Peskorsky) was a painter and engraver who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg. He moved to France in 1779, where he practically stopped working to play cards. His date of death is unknown. Ivan Perskorsky, potret Amelii Załuskiej z Ogińskich, ok. 1808.
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Ivan Yakovlevitch PESCORSKY (1757 - after 1818) Amalia Oginska, c. 1808 Lead pencil. Signed lower left. Identified lower right. 16.5 x 14 cm Amelia Załuska z Ogińskich born in 1805, is the daughter of Michał Kleofas Ogiński and Maria de Neri. Her composer father and Italian singer mother instilled in her a passion for the arts, and music in particular. She herself became a composer. Her 1808 portrait by François-Xavier Fabre is well known. A little earlier, in 1805 or 1806, the artist also painted his father (both portraits are preserved in Lithuania, at the Ciurlionis Museum in Kaunas and the National Museum in Vilnius). Ivan Yakovlevitch Pescorsky (Peskorsky) was a painter and engraver who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg. He moved to France in 1779, where he practically stopped working to play cards. His date of death is unknown. Ivan Perskorsky, potret Amelii Załuskiej z Ogińskich, ok. 1808.
