Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, of Pogoń coat of arms (1734-1823 )
Marshal of the convocation Seym in Warsaw 7 V-23 VI 1764
and the extraordinary Seym in Warsaw 26-28 VI 1812
General of Podolia from 1758.
Before 1763 the first candidate of the Czartoryskis' 'Familia'
for the Polish throne. After the death of August III, he renounced
the honour signing the election of Stanisław August Poniatowski
and accepting the Marshal's staff of office of the convocation Seym
in 1764. On the first session of both Parliament Chambers
he delivered a famous speech supporting and announcing the reforms.
One of the leading reformers of the age of King Stanisław.
A Knight of the Order of the White Eagle (1764)
A comedy writer, theoretician and literary critic, political
publicist, he was a patron of artists and writers, financed
numerous cultural enterprises - 'Monitor' was published under his
auspices. As the commander-in-chief
of the Knights' School (from 1768) he patronized publishing
the school textbooks, cared for the adepts and worked on the famous
'Catechism of the Cadet '(1774). One of the most active creators
of the National Education Commission. A deputy to the Great Seym
(1788-91) and a supporter of the Third May Constitution, a member
of the Friends of the Constitution Society. A long-lived member
of the Warsaw Learned Society, he supervised and financed
the monumental work of Samuel Bogumił Linde 'The Dictionary of
Polish Language'. One of the most outstanding statesmen and thinkers
of the epoch , he created together with his wife, Izabella
of the Flemmings, the centre of artistic life in their residence
at Puławy.
Portrait of Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, after 1808
- painter undefined
- oil canvas; 89cm x 69cm
- The XX. Czartoryskis' Foundation, the National Museum in Cracow (cat. no XII-425)