Augustyn Mirys
Polish artist
Died when: 90 years 59 days (1082 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Augustyn Mirys (8 January 1700 – 8 March 1790) was a Polish painter of Scottish-French origin.Augustyn was born probably in France and educated in Rome.
There in 1739 he met a Polish aristocrat and moved to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.In Poland he worked for the Jablonowskis, the Cetners, the Krasinskis and marechal Franciszek Bielinski.
In early 1750s he entered the service of Jan Klemens Branicki and moved to his private town: Bialystok.He was later granted an indygenat, which meant he held by law all the privileges granted to Polish nobles.
He died in Nowe Miasto near Bialystok.Mirys worked mainly in oil and pastel.He was active as a portraitist and a dacorator.He had a son (1750-1810), who became a painter and illustrator active in France.
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