Teodora Matejko

Teodora Matejkowa, née Giebułtowska (b. 1846, d. 25 August 1896 in Kraków), - the daughter of Antoni Giebułtowski and Paulina Sikorska, and the wife of the Polish painter Jan Matejko.

She was a member of the Giebułtowski family, friends of the family of her future husband. On 21 November 1864 she married Polish painter Jan Matejko. After their marriage, they moved to Kraków, where she gave birth to five children: Tadeusz, Helena, Beata, Jerzy and Regina. Soon after the marriage, Matejkowa had diabetes, and in her later years mental disorder. She often posed to her husband, mostly as Bona Sforza, or Barbara Radziwill.

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