Walenty Wańkowicz, Belarusian-Polish painter (born 1799)

Walenty Wańkowicz

Polish painter (1799–1842)

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 (1827–28).