Walenty Wańkowicz

Walenty Wilhelm Wańkowicz was a Polish painter. He studied at the Jesuit College in Polotsk, the University of Wilno and the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. He produced, among other things, a well-known portrait of Adam Mickiewicz.

Legacy

Wańkowicz is honored in Belarus as one of the most important 19th-century painters of Belarusian origin. There is a monument to him in Minsk.
The Vankovich House / Wańkowicz House, the former mansion of the Wańkowicz family, is now a museum in the historical part of Minsk.