Portraits of the Krasicki of Siecień counts family

Portraits of the Krasicki of Siecień counts family
The ancestral gallery composed of 28 en grisaille portraits painted by Fryderyk Kloss of Königsberg in 1786, supplemented by six portraits from the period of late 18th century – 1840.
Among the latter, there are likenesses of Antoni (1736–1800) and Ksawery (1774–1844), namely the brother and nephew of Bishop Ignacy. Organized – as one may suspect by Ignacy Krasicki himself – based on information contained in the armorials of Bartosz Paprocki and Kacper Niesiecki, which is why it holds four portraits of the Bibersteins of own coat of arms, from which old heraldists descended the Krasicki family of the Rogala coat of arms. Next, there are the more important Mazovia and Lesser Poland representatives of the family from various generations (the whole is not, after all, a genealogical presentation), including senators of Poland and counts. The last chronologically portrayed figure is the brother of Bishop Ignacy, Franciszek Ksawery (1740–1779). In the 80s and 90s of the 18th century, Fryderyk Kloss worked for Ignacy Krasicki on site in Lidzbark. It is more than probable that the paintings were created nowhere else but in Lidzbark under the supervision of the bishop, who then sent them to the ancestral seat in Dubieck near Przemyśl. Currently, the Krasicki family gallery is property of the Foundation for Ciechanowiecki Collection at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. Since 1996, it has been a long-term deposit at the disposal of the Museum of Warmia and Masuria, with the right of permanent exhibition at the Lidzbark residence, where it serves as an ornament of the bishops' summer dining room.