Konstanty Mankowski (1861 Kraków - 1897 Kraków), "Gypsy," 1887

oil/canvas
Dimensions: 125 x 84 cm
signed and dated on the right, at the bottom: 'Konstanty Mańkowski | 1887'.
on the painter's loom, circular wax customs stamp with the description: 'H.Z.A. | L [double-headed Austrian eagle] S | KRAKAU' and a paper sticker with an illegible description

Origins
Rempex auction house, November 2017 (gallery purchase)
private collection, Poland

Exhibited
Society of the Friends of Fine Arts, Cracow, 1887

Literature
Emmanuel Świeykowski, Memoir of the Society of Friends of the Fine Arts in Cracow 1854-1904, Cracow 1905, p. 101 (mentioned in the list of works)
Report of the Directorate of the United Society of Friends of the Fine Arts in Cracow on its activities for the year 1887, Cracow 1878, R. XXXIII, p. 8, cat. no. 167

Biography
Studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1874-80, then from 1880 to 1884 in Vienna under Hans Makart. He continued his studies in 1885-8 in the studio of Jan Matejko. He painted portraits, landscapes, genre and religious scenes. In 1892 he designed a curtain for the Municipal Theater in Cracow, and in 1896 he was one of the authors of Panorama of the Tatra Mountains. He exhibited at TPST in Cracow, TZSP in Warsaw and TPSP in Lvov. He also had exhibitions in Vienna, Berlin and Paris.