# Jan Rustem > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jan_Rustem > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jan_Rustem.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rustem > Source revision: 1338468381 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Armenian painter (1762–1835)}} {{No footnotes|date=July 2011}} thumb|215px|Self-portrait (date unknown) '''Jan Rustem''' ({{langx|hy|Յան Ռուստամ}}; 1762 – 21 June 1835) was a [painter](/source/painting) of Armenian ethnicity who lived and worked in the territories of the [Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth](/source/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth). Primarily a [portrait painter](/source/Portrait_painting), he was commissioned to execute portraits of notable personalities of his epoch. For many years he was a professor at [Vilnius University](/source/Vilnius_University). ==Biography== He was born in [Constantinople](/source/Constantinople), and as a young orphan boy was sponsored by [Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski](/source/Adam_Kazimierz_Czartoryski), who invited him to the Commonwealth around 1774. Czartoryski paid for his studies in [Warsaw](/source/Warsaw), where among his tutors were [Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine](/source/Jean-Pierre_Norblin_de_La_Gourdaine) and [Marcello Bacciarelli](/source/Marcello_Bacciarelli). Between 1788 and 1790, he moved to Germany, where he became a [freemason](/source/freemason). Two years later he returned to the Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth and lived for some time in Warsaw, later moving to [Vilnius](/source/Vilnius). Following the [partitions of the Commonwealth](/source/Partitions_of_Poland), Rustem started working for Vilnius University, as an assistant to [Franciszek Smuglewicz](/source/Franciszek_Smuglewicz). After Smuglewicz's death, the professorship of Fine Art was awarded in 1810 to the Englishman, [Joseph Saunders](/source/Joseph_Saunders_(engraver)) and Rustem became his collaborator. In 1811, he became a professor of sketching and in 1819 became a professor of painting. Rustem retired in 1826, but continued to give lectures until his death, which occurred near [Dūkštas](/source/D%C5%ABk%C5%A1tas), [Lithuania](/source/Lithuania). Among his successful students were [Taras Shevchenko](/source/Taras_Shevchenko), [Józef Oleszkiewicz](/source/J%C3%B3zef_Oleszkiewicz), [Kanuty Rusiecki](/source/Kanuty_Rusiecki), and [Michał Kulesza](/source/Micha%C5%82_Kulesza). ==Selected portraits== File:Mykolas Riomeris.jpg|[Michał Józef Römer](/source/Micha%C5%82_J%C3%B3zef_R%C3%B6mer) File:Jan Śniadecki cr.jpg|[Jan Śniadecki](/source/Jan_%C5%9Aniadecki) File:Stanisłaŭ Jundził. Станіслаў Юндзіл (J. Rustem, 1822).jpg|[Stanisław Bonifacy Jundziłł](/source/Stanis%C5%82aw_Bonifacy_Jundzi%C5%82%C5%82) File:Rustem-Portret Krystyny Frankowej.jpg|Krystyna Frank, wife of Dr. Józef Frank == References == {{Commons category|Jan Rustem}} * {{in lang|pl}} Od starożytności do współczesności - Malarstwo i rzeźba, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN S.A., Warszawa 2006 * {{in lang|pl}} ''Malarstwo Polskie w zbiorach za granicą'', Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Wydawnictwo Kluszczyński, 2003, {{ISBN|83-88080-85-7}} * {{in lang|pl}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20090309223641/http://webart.omikron.com.pl/paint/authors/rust_ja/index.htm ''Rustem, Jan''], webart: malarstwo polskie {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rustem, Jan}} Category:1762 births Category:1835 deaths Category:Ethnic Armenian painters Category:Painters from the Russian Empire Category:18th-century Polish–Lithuanian painters Category:18th-century male artists Category:19th-century Polish painters Category:19th-century Polish male artists Category:18th-century Lithuanian people Category:19th-century Lithuanian painters Category:Polish people of Armenian descent Category:Academic staff of Vilnius University Category:Artists from Vilnius Category:Polish male painters --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jan Rustem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rustem) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rustem?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.