Ludvik Hammer

Ludvik Hammer (ur. 1715 Paris, zm. 1804 Warsaw).
He was the nephew of the painter Louis de Silvestrea the Younger. He was educated in Paris. It was brought to Poland by J.. K. Branicki after 1750. Initially, he stayed in Białystok, then he moved to Warsaw, where after 1756 worked for Augustus III. He had an atelier and lived in the Castle. W 1764 became the court painter of Stanisław August. In the last years of life, at least since 1792, received a salary from Fr.. Marshal Lubomirska. He was also involved in pedagogical work. His pupil was, among others. Anna Rajecka. Marteau was primarily a portraitist. He painted portraits of mostly small sizes with pastels, which he himself repeated from time to time. At the behest of the king, Naruszewicz wrote several biographies of people portrayed by Marteau. Twelve of these portraits of St. 1829 lithographed by K.. F. Minter. A significant number of Marteau's depictions at the behest of Tsar Nicholas I were burned in St. Petersburg in 1834. The artist's genre scenes are also known.

Katarzyna Kossakowska presented in the portrait (ur. 1721 the 1722 zm. 1801), daughter of Jerzy Potocki, the starost of Grabowiec, and Konstancja née Drucko-Podbereski, from 1744 wife of Stanisław Kossakowski, castellan of Kaminski, Kajetan's aunt, Ignacy and Stanisław Kostka Potocki, was one of the most characteristic figures in the times of Stanisław August. Known for her wit, intelligence, food, she was popularly called the Great Wisdom. Copy of this picture, painted by Szczepan Barański ca.. half. w. XIX, is at the National Museum in Warsaw.