1849 deaths
George Cooke (painter)
1793 births | 1849 deaths | american painters | people from marylandGeorge Cooke (1793 – 1849) was an itinerant American painter who specialized in portrait and landscape paintings and was one of the South's best known painters of the mid nineteenth century. His primary patron was the industrialist Daniel Pratt, who built a gallery in Prattville, Alabama to house Cooke's paintings.
Early career and fame
Born in Maryland, Cooke abandoned a fledgling career in business at an early age in order to become a full time artist. After several years of painting portraits, Cooke and his wife left for what would become a five year tour of Europe. This time in Europe was spent learning from and copying the works of the Renaissance master artists, with many of the copies being sent back to the United States for show or sale.Wacław Michał Zaleski
1799 births | 1849 deaths | people from galicia | polish activists | polish folklorists | polish poets | polish theatre critics | polish translators | polish writersWacław Michał Zaleski (September 18, 1799 in Olesko, eastern Galicia – February 24, 1849 in Vienna), pseudonym Wacław from Olesko (Wacław z Oleska), was a Polish poet, writer, researcher of folklore (folklorist), theatre critic, political activist, governor of Galicia (1848).
Zaleski collected and published in Lviv Pieśni polskie i ruskie ludu galicyjskiego [Polish and Russian songs of Galician nation] (1833), which contained about 1500 works, including 160 with piano accompaniment composed by Karol Lipiński. It was largest collection of folk-songs published in Poland before Oskar Kolberg.
