Antoni Madeyski (1862-1939) - Nude of a seated woman. Signed at the bottom: "Ant. Madeyski Rome 1908" Stained plaster. Dimensions: height 44cm, base dimension 18 x 15cm. The sculpture is accompanied by a photograph of the sculptor's daughter with the offered sculpture, who was its owner. The sculpture lacks the figure of two hands, one of which was already gone when the photograph was taken in the artist's studio.
Antoni Franciszek Mieczysław Madeyski coat-of-arms Poraj (born 1862 in Fośnia Wielka in the Owrucki district of Volhynia, died February 2, 1939 in Rome) - Polishsculptor and medalist. His coin design with a symbolic image of Polonia was realized on the reverse of silver two-, five- and ten-zloty coins, in circulation since 1932.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, the Vienna academy and the St. Petersburg academy. In 1898 he settled permanently in Rome, where he was active among the Polish artistic community. He received numerous commissions from Polish aristocratic families - the Sanguszkos, the Czartoryskis, the Tarnowskis, and executed monumental works such as the bust of Jan Matejko set in a niche on the façade of the TPSP building in Cracow, and is also the author of the Wawel tombstones of Queen Jadwiga and Wladyslaw Warneńczyk .
In 1936 he was on the governing body of the "Capitol" Circle of Polish Artists. He died in Rome of a heart attack. He was buried there in the Campo Verano cemetery.
