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Place of Birth: Płock, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Jan Betley
- Jan Betley (1908 - 1980) was a Polish painter. Betley was born in Plock.
- Before the World War II, he was a student of two well known Polish painters, Tadeusz Pruszkowski and Felicjan Kowarski, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (ASP).
- In 1936, he graduated under the advisory of Pruszkowski and qualified himself as the assistant-professor in 1948.
- Most of his early paintings were lost during the war time.
- After the war he taught at the ASP. He was a member of the Fourth Group advocating traditional subjects and perfectionism of technique.
- He is known for his portraits, landscapes, paintings of horses, battle scenes and genre pieces.
- He was closely related to Polish Colourism.
- His works can be found in Polish museums and in private collections in Poland and England. Betley died in Warsaw at age 72.
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