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Polish painting of the 19th century was formed in Central European context; however, it had its own specialties. On one hand, there were mutual tendencies in development of landscape- and portrait-painting, on the other, because of complicated political conditions, the ideologically spotted historical painting made it possible to touch in its own way problems of nationality. The article exemplifies this strategy through artworks by prominent Polish painters like Piotr Michalowski, Juliusz Kossak or Jan Matejko.