Podlaskie Museum in Białystok, which is established in the Town City Hall, holds a small yet quite distinguished collection of artworks, among which the best are, in my opinion, a few paintings by Jacek Malczewski, a prominent Polish Symbolist artist (if you love Odilon Redon, Puvis de Chavannes, Čiurlionis, Somov and Borisov-Musatov, you won’t be disappointed).
There were also portraits of the Branickis, a wealthy Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth hetman family whose palace is located in the centre of the city and one of whom is buried in the Catholic cathedral (its old part) nearby. Several of the portraits belong to Józef Simmler, a famous Polish classicist painter, and they do look masterful.
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