Karolina Lanckorońska [SEP] father
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Life.
Karolina Lanckorońska was the daughter of Count Karol Lanckoroński, a Polish nobleman from a Galician family, and his third wife, Countess Margaret Lichnovsky, daughter of Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky.
Reared and educated in Vienna (capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, of which much of partitioned Poland was a part), where she attended university. She lived at her family's palace, the Palais Lanckoroński. After Poland regained independence in 1918, Lanckorońska taught at Lwów University. She earned her PhD in
was not included in the 1989 edition of the Rembrandt Research Project. In 1994 Karolina Lanckorońska donated both it and "The Girl in the Picture Frame" to the Royal Castle, Warsaw, where they still hang. The Project accessed them and their authorship was confirmed in February 2006.
Analysis.
In 1769 the painting was called the "Bride’s Father Writing Down the Dowry". Later, when the painting was in the Stanisław August collection, it was referred to as the "Father of the Jewish Bride"