JAN PIOTR NORBLIN
(1745 - 1830)
Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine

Born in Misy Faut Yonne (France). Came to Poland in 1772 as a court artist of Czartoryski family. Painter, engraver, drawing artist and caricaturist. Worked in Puławy and at Powązki as painter and decorator of Czartoryski's estate. He also worked for the Radziwiłł family in Arkadia (Nieborów) and for King Stanisław August Poniatowski. In 1790 settled in Warsaw where he established his art school. His students were among others: M. Płoński, A. Orłowski, and J. Rustem. He created a gallery of portraits of representatives of all social classes in the last years of the Polish Republic. Died in Paris in 1830.