Size: 55 x 45.5 cm (in light of frame)
1 Portrait of Teofil Jankowski, signed, dated and inscribed p.d.: B.Nawrocki | Pabianice 1894'
2 Portrait of Maria Jankowska, signed, described and dated l.d.:' B.Nawrocki 97 | Pabianice'
Biography
At an early age he began taking drawing lessons with Wojciech Gerson. In 1895 he went to study art in Munich, where he initially studied with Stanislaw Grocholski. Later he enrolled at the Academy there. He ended up in the studio of Johann Caspar Herterich, where he spent two years. In 1897 he left for Krakow, where he still studied with Leon Wyczółkowski. However, he did not stay there for long. Later that year he went to Paris. He studied at the Académie Julian, the Académie Vitti and the Académie Colarossi. He maintained his studio on the Seine until 1907. Upon his return to Poland, he purchased the Syryczyn estate near Pabianice. He continued to travel extensively. He was also already running his own painting school.
