Daniel Schultz

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The Dedesh Agha Family, 1664.

(Georg) Daniel Schultz the Younger (1615 – 1683) was a famous painter of the Baroque era. Schultz painted many Danzig Patricians, such as the astronomer Johannes Hevelius, as well as animals. He became leading artist at the court of the Polish kings in the second half of the 17th century as well.

Schultz was probably born around 1615, in the Hanseatic city of Danzig (Gdańsk), Poland. He learned the art of painting from his uncle, Daniel Schultz the Elder (?-1646), another important painter, working in his workshop for about five years. After his uncle's death he went to France and Netherlands to continue his studies for about three years.

He went to Poland in 1649 and became a private painter to the Polish king John II, and then to successor kings Michael Wiśniowiecki and John III Sobieski. Schultz lived in Warsaw until about 1660. His great portraits of Polish kings and nobles are among the best examples of Baroque art in Poland.

Then he returned to his hometown, where he resided until his death in 1683. Schultz lived in Danzig at the same time the engraver Jeremias Falck lived there as well. Falck often engraved Portraits after Schultz's paintings. He still returned to Warsaw from time to time to work on royal commissions, often working in the Wilanów Palace.