Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz

(1857-1893)

Polish artist

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Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz (8 December 1857, Zlatopol – 18 April 1893, Warsaw, Russian Empire) was a Polish painter, known for her portraits. She was born Anna Bilińska, the daughter of a Polish doctor in the formerly frontier town of Zlatopol in the Russian Empire (today part of Novomyrhorod), where she spent her childhood. About her origin Anna joked that she has a temper of Cossack, but a Polish heart (Polish: ma temperament kozaczy, ale serce polskie). She lived with her father in Imperial Russia, where her first art teacher was Michał Elwiro Andriolli (Andriolli following the 1863–1864 January Uprising was exiled by the Tsarist government to katorga), before studying music and art in Warsaw where she became a student of Wojciech Gerson in 1877. During this time, she began to exhibit her work at the Zachęta Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts (Polish Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych) in Warsaw.