denmark 1977
Horse engraving for the Copenhagen Philatelist Club
Drawing by Piotr Michalowski - Engraving by Czeslaw Slania
Piotr Michałowski (July 2, 1800 – June 9, 1855) was a Polish painter of the Romantic period, especially known for his many portraits, and oil studies of horses. Broadly educated, he was also a social activist, legal advocate, city administrator and President of the Kraków Agricultural Society (from 1853). The Sukiennice Museum, a division of the National Museum in Kraków, contains a room named after him and devoted to Michałowski's work. Slania was an admirer of Jan Matejko and Piotr Michałowski works, especially of his artistic studies of horses, Slania also was a lover of horses.
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