Franciszek Tepa

Franciszek Tomasz Tepa was a Polish mid-19th century realist painter who specialized in portraits and Orientalist themes. During the Revolutions of 1848, Tepa became politically involved in the independence movement. He produced a series of portraits of Polish leaders of the November Uprising against the foreign Partitions of Poland including Joachim Lelewel, Józef Dwernicki and Józef Chłopicki among many others; and was jailed as political prisoner while in the Austro-Hungarian capital of Vienna.