Edward Rastawiecki

Baron Edward Rastawiecki (October 20, 1804 in Nowosiółki near Hrubieszów - February 23, 1879 in Warszawa) was a Polish art historian.

Edward Rastawiecki; portrait by Jan Ksawery Kaniewski.

He was a descendant of an aristocratic Polish family. His father was baron Ludwik Mikołaj Adam Rastawiecki. He finished the Liceum Warszawskie school in Warsaw. He then graduated in administration at Warsaw university. He worked in the National Bank of Poland. Later, he worked as chancellor in another bank, Towarzystwo Kredytowe Ziemskie.

His wife was Leonia Nakwaska (1818-1886). They had no children. Edward Rastawiecki died in his mansion on Mazowiecka street in Warsaw. He was buried on Cmentarz Powązkowski in Warsaw.

Works

Mapografia dawnej Polski, 1846;
Słownik malarzy polskich tudzież obcych w Polsce osiadłych lub czasowo w niej przebywających, t. 1-3, 1850–1857;
Słownik rytowników polskich, 1886;
Wzory sztuki średniowiecznej i z epoki Odrodzenia w dawnej Polsce, 1853–1858

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gollark: You can also just insist that if we rearranged society everyone would be nice and wonderful, I guess.

gollark: If you want to help people, then, well, you're in a reasonably rich country with the weight of a giant productive economic engine behind you, you can get money and buy malaria nets for Africans or something, which is apparently high impact per $.

gollark: You seem to have an excessively broad definition and blame it for everything.

References

Szenic, Stanisław (1982). Cmentarz powązkowski 1891-1918. Zmarli i ich rodziny. Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. p. 232.
"Rastawiecki Edward". Encyklopedia PWN. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
Minakowski, Marek. "Edward bar. Rastawiecki h. Sas". Genealogia potomków Sejmu Wielkiego. Retrieved April 16, 2011.

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