Maria Gażycz - Wieśniaczka

Maria Gażycz, née Maria Nowina-Chrzanowska was a Belarusian-born Polish figure painter, art restorer, nun in the order of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. Her father was an engineer, her Swedish mother, was a member of the aristocratic Nobel family. According to her mother's wishes, she was raised in the strict Orthodox tradition, their winters were spent in Warsaw. She and her three siblings were educated at home. From 1874 to 1878, she studied in Warsaw with Wojciech Gerson.