On the 27 February 2025 a press conference and gala evening were held at the Royal Castle in Warsaw to celebrate the re-opening of The Lanckoronski Gallery.
From 28 February The Lanckoronski Gallery will be open to the public in a new arrangement. The works of art, including the two Lanckoronski Rembrandts, have been on show for many years on the castle’s ground floor, and now they have been been enriched by a new section dedicated to Italian art.
The principal works on display comprise the donation of Professor Karolina Lanckorońska, the last member of a family which for generations collected one of the greatest private collections in Europe. Part of her donation includes paintings formerly belonging to the last King of Poland, Stanislas August Poniatowski. Of them the most valuable are two works by Rembrandt van Rijn: A Girl in a Picture Frame and The Scholar by a Lectern. There are also portraits of members of the Lanckoroński family as well as their Rzewuski ancestors.
Professor Małgorzata Omilanowska, the director of The Royal Castle, speaking to journalists during the press conference.
Piotr Piniński, the president of The Lanckoronski Foundation, speaking during the press conference.
One of the rooms of The Lanckoronski Gallery.
Professor Omilanowska giving a speech during the gala.
Professor Elżbieta Orman of the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Science, speaking during the gala.
Profesor Omilanowska przemawia podczas gali.
Speech by Piotr Piniński, the president of The Lanckoronski Foundation.
The foundation’s president Piotr Piniński giving a speech during the gala.
Photographs: The Royal Castle in Warsaw © B.Wronka.