The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Siemiradzki, Henryk

SIEMIRADZKI, syĕm-ĭ-räz'kĭ, Henryk, Polish painter: b. near Kharkov, Grodno government, 15 Nov. 1843; d. 1902. He studied art in the Academy of Saint Petersburg and after a sojourn in Munich, fixed his studio in Rome. Among his best canvases are &lsquo;Nero's Torches&rsquo; (1876) now in the National Museum, Cracow; &lsquo;The Vase or the Slave&rsquo; (1879); &lsquo;The Amulet-Seller&rsquo; (1888); &lsquo;Christ Stilling the Waves&rsquo;; &lsquo;The Sword Dance&rsquo; (1880); &lsquo;Phryne at Eleusis&rsquo; (1889), in the Alexander Museum, petrograd; &lsquo;Christ with Martha and Mary&rsquo; (1886). He also decorated with much skill two ceilings in the Netchaïev Palace of Petrograd and several churches of Cracow and Moscow.