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This article discusses 487 private letters of a sultan’s painter, Stanisław Chlebowski (1835-1884) to Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and to his family settled in Cracow. The aim of the text is to analyze the linguistic aspect of the correspondence, including particularly the lexis and phraseology, which indicate the characteristics of the work, everyday life and social contacts of the author and the major Polish artists: Juliusz Kossak, Wojciech Kossak, Jan Matejko, Henryk Siemiradzki and Jacek Malczewski.