Alfred Isidore Römer

Alfred Izydor Romer (Römer or Roemer, ; 16 May 1832, Vilnius – 24 January 1897, Karalinova, Pastavy Raion) was a Polish-Lithuanian painter, sculptor, printmaker and medallist from the family of Baltic-German origins, who worked in what is now Lithuania and Belarus. Biography He was descended from a noble family that had settled in Courland in the 16th-Century. His father was Edward Jan Römer, a painter, writer and social activist. His grandfather was Michał Józef Römer, a politician who favored the abolition of serfdom. His brother, Edward Mateusz Römer was also a well-known painter. His mother was Anna Białłozor, daughter of . He studied drawing with Kanuty Rusiecki in Vilnius. In 1850 he went to Vologda, where his father was exiled in 1839. They both together with father's second wife Zofia Białłozor returned to Vilnius in 1852. Alfred Izydor opened a painting academy. In 1857 he traveled together with Jan Zienkiewicz in Europe, visiting Dresden, Paris, Belgium and Italy. In 1859 he returned home and settled in Krewno estate in Ukmergė County. He also contributed prints and drawings of rural life to a Polish illustrated magazine called Kłosy (Ears of Wheat). In 1863 he was arrested and imprisoned at Dinaburg Fortress for organising the uprising in Lithuania. After his release in 1865, he sold his estate and lived with father.