Piotr Michałowski

Piotr Michałowski (July 2, 1800 – June 9, 1855) was a prominent Polish painter of the Romantic period, known for his captivating portraits and, perhaps most famously, his energetic oil studies of horses. Born into a landowning family outside Kraków, Michałowski displayed artistic talent from a young age, studying under several artists while also pursuing a broad education in classical philosophy, agriculture, and mathematics at the Jagiellonian University. His life was not s…