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(1) Juliusz (Fortunat) Kossak
(b Wisnicz Nowy pod Bochnia, Galicia [now in Ukraine], 29 Oct 1824; d Kraków, 3 Feb 1899). Painter, draughtsman and illustrator. He studied drawing under Jan Kanty Maszkowski (1794–1865). In the 1840s he was invited by his patrons and their relatives among the Polish nobility and gentry to stay on their estates in Malopolska, Podolia, Wolyn and the Ukraine. He observed the life of the Polish nobility as well as landscape. He painted, in watercolour and occasionally oils, scenes of horse riding, racing and hunting, as well as horses in studs, which he depicted with great facility and affection (e.g. Alfred Potocki Hunting, watercolour, 1845; Warsaw, N. Mus. and Grey Mare, watercolour, 1844; Tarnów, Distr. Mus.). Some of these works reveal the influence of English sporting prints, the work of Horace Vernet and, to a lesser extent, that of Aleksandr Orlovsky.
Part of the Kossak family
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