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Zofia Szymanowska–Lenartowicz
Self-portrait (1855), oil on canvas (from the Warsaw National Museum)
Born	Zofia Szymanowska 21 December 1825 Otwock, Second Polish Republic (now Poland)
Died	July 8, 1870(1870-07-08) (aged 44) Miłosław, Second Polish Republic (now Poland)
Burial place	Miłosław, Poland
Occupation(s)	Painter, poet
Spouse	Teofil Lenartowicz (m. 1861–1870; her death)
Children	1

Zofia Szymanowska–Lenartowicz (21 December 1825 – 8 July 1870) was a Polish painter, and poet. She painted many portraits of the Mickiewicz family.

Biography

Zofia Szymanowska was born on 21 December 1825, in Otwock, Second Polish Republic (now Poland). She was the daughter of Józef Szymanowski (1785–1832) and his second wife, Elżbieta (née Młodzianowska, 1791–1847), her family wasennobled Jewish Frankists.

She was a half-sister of Celina Szymanowska, who was married to poet Adam Mickiewicz. Szymanowska–Lenartowicz had lived with the Mickiewicz family in Paris from 1850 until 1855, and help with childcare. She was educated in Dresden and in Paris, and in the studio of Ary Scheffer, and Aleksander Lesser. In 1861, she married poet Teofil Lenartowicz in Florence, Italy, with whom she had a son Jan (John) who died shortly after his birth in 1864.

She died after struggling with pneumonia on 8 July 1870, in Miłosław, Poland.

References

1. Saur, K. G. (2021). "Lenartowiczowa, Zofia". Degruyter.com. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
2. Suchocka, Dorota (2005). Malarstwo Polskie 1766–1945 [Polish Painting 1766–1945] (in Polish). Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu (National Museum in Poznań). p. 77. ISBN 978-83-89053-47-3 – via Google Books.
3. ^ Białostocka, Jolanta Maurin (1971). Słownik artystów polskich i obcych w Polsce działających: malarze, rzeźbiarze, graficy [Dictionary of Polish and Foreign Artists Working in Poland: painters, sculptors, graphic artists] (in Polish). Vol. 5. Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. p. 33. ISBN 978-83-85938-25-5 – via Google Books.
4. ^ Matuszewski, Ignacy (1904). Twórczość i twórcy: studya i szkice estetyczno-literackie [Creativity and Creators: aesthetic and literary studies and sketches] (in Polish). Gebethner i Wolff. p. 328 – via Google Books.
5. The Polish Review. Vol. 34. Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America. 1989. p. 339.
6. ^ Polonsky, Antony (1986). Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies. Basil Blackwell for the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-631-17624-4 – via Google Books.