Oil on canvas 1820-1830. Portrait of Leon Sapieha (1803-1878) | 2838 |

Oil on canvas 1820-1830. Portrait of Polish Noble man dress up with a blue sash, order White Eagle. Size: 24 x 18 in (61 x 45.5 cm) Leon Sapieha (1803–1878) was a Galician noble (szlachcic) and statesman. Leon was born and educated in Warsaw, and studied law and economics in Paris and Edinburgh from 1820 to 1824. He began to work in the administration in the Polish (Congress) Kingdom. After the outbreak of the November Uprising in 1830, he left Russian Empire and took part in diplomatic missions of the Polish "National Government" in France and Great Britain. After that, he returned and participated in the Uprising in the rank of an Artillery Captain, among others in the defence of Warsaw on 6 and 7 September . He was awarded for that the Virtuti Militari Order. After the collapse of the Uprising he settled in Galicia, then part of the Austrian Empire. In 1835 Russian authorities confiscated his estates in Congress Poland as punishment for his participation in the failed Uprising. Leon