Alfred Isidore Romer [SEP] noble family
Alfred Isidore Romer
Alfred Isidore Romer, or Alfred Izydor Römer (Belarusian: Альфрэд Ізідор Ромер; 16 May 1832, Vilnius - 24 January 1897, Karalinova, Pastavy Raion) was a Baltic-German/Polish painter, sculptor, printmaker and medallist who worked in what is now Lithuania and Belarus.
Biography.
He was descended from a noble family that had settled in Courland in the 16th-Century. His father was , a painter, writer and social activist. His grandfather was Michał Józef Römer, a
and novelist
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