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19th-Century FoundersPainting
Mișu Popp
1827 – 1892 Brașov
Prolific portraitist of 19th-century Wallachian and Transylvanian society.
Son of the painter Simion Popp, he studied in Vienna and settled in Bucharest, where he painted hundreds of portraits of boyars and merchants and decorated numerous churches.
Works
Notable works
№ 01
Portraits of Bucharest society
No freely-licensed image
№ 01 · 1850s–80sPortraits of Bucharest society
Oil on canvas
National Museum of Art of Romania
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