Signed p.d.: Roma | Ludomir | Sleńdziński 1925.
The style of Ludomir Sleńdzinski, a leading representative of Vilnius' New Classicism, matured in the early 1920s. In 1925 Sleńdzinski took the chair of monumental painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. In the same year the artist went to Italy, where in Rome he married Irena Dobrowolska. Here he created many of her portraits, with Italian monuments and landscapes as a backdrop. One of them is Portrait of a Wife with a Wedding Ring, also created in 1925, with St. Angelo's Castle in the background.
Ludomir Sleńdzinski (Vilnius 1889-Krakow 1980) - painter, sculptor and pedagogue, a leading representative of the so-called Vilnius School. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg under the direction of D.N. Kardovsky. His diploma work was the painting Idyll, purchased in 1916 for the Academy's collection. He spent the years of World War I in Ekaterinovsk and Humansk. From 1920 he lived in Vilnius, where he was co-founder and president of the Vilnius Society of Artists, and from 1925 a professor of painting at the University. He traveled to Italy and France several times; he also traveled to Spain, England, the Middle East and Africa. From 1945 he lived in Cracow, holding the chair of drawing and sculpture at the Technical University. The artist's diverse oeuvre, shaped in the circle of Russian Neoclassicism, referring to both Vilnius painting of the first half of the 19th century and Italian Renaissance art, included figural compositions, portraits, wall paintings and sculptures.
