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19th-Century FoundersPainting
Sava Henția
1848 – 1904 Sâmbăteni, Arad
Transylvanian-born painter of genre scenes and the War of Independence.
Henția studied in Bucharest and Paris and painted genre scenes, still lifes and episodes of the 1877–78 War of Independence, which he followed as an artist.
Works
Notable works
№ 01
Scenes from the War of Independence
No freely-licensed image
№ 01 · 1877–78Scenes from the War of Independence
Oil on canvas
National Museum of Art of Romania
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