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Aleksander Raczyński (1822, Lwów - 16 November 1889, Lwów) was a Polish portrait painter.
He also painted sacred and historical subjects, as well as contemporary scenes from the Crimean War. In 1855, he engraved the Coats-of-Arms for a new edition of the Herbarz Polski (Polish Armorial) by Kasper Niesiecki.[1] He was also a founder and frequent exhibitor at the "Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Lwów" and served as Director of the Technical Academy (now Lviv Polytechnic).
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