The Paintings of the Radziwiłł Family. Report on Research Regarding the Królikarnia Collection

The article focuses on the collection of paintings assembled by Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł (1744–1831) and his wife Helena, née Przeździecka (1753–1821). It presents the results of research regarding the works of art exhibited in 1835 in the Radziwiłł family’s Królikarnia villa near Warsaw. Among them were works by minor artists, such as Roelant Savery or Frans Hulst, as well as pieces by well-known painters, such as David Teniers, Frans Snijders, Jacob van Ruisdael, Luca Giordano and Jan Wijnants. The article discusses hypotheses concerning works previously attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn and Gabriël Metsu, but now recognized as works by other painters. It also outlines the turbulent fate of the collection, a large portion of which is now believed to have been sold to the Englishman John C. Wombwell in the mid-nineteenth century.