Gallery V

Willem van Honthorst (1594 – 1666) (?)

1650s

The collection of Maciej Radziwiłł

(painting presented in Poland for the first time)

 

 

Bogusław Radziwiłł was the son of Janusz, Voivode of Vilnius, and Elisabeth Sophia Hohenzollern. The last male representative of the Calvinist Radziwiłł line of Birżai and Dubingiai. He is commonly seen as one of the richest and most influential representatives of the Radziwiłł family in the 17th century. After his death, the vast estate was inherited by his only daughter, Louise Caroline Charlotte Radziwiłł, also known as the Duchess of Neuburg. Bogusław Radziwiłł remained a controversial figure - on the one hand he is known as the traitor to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and a magnate who cared only for his personal interests and interests and estates, while on the other, some consider him a patriot who wanted to save the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the rule of the Russian tsars