Brief Biography-Wincenty Leopold Sleńdziński, born in the Jonava district, was instructed by the Lithuanian artist Kanuty Rusiecki after initially receiving lessons from his father, Aleksander. In 1861, he gained Artist third-degree at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. However, his involvement in the January Uprising led to his detention and eventual exile to Kharkiv in Ukraine; they freed him in 1872. In Krakow, Poland, he befriended Jan Matejko before going to Dresden. In 1883 he married and settled in Vilnius, doing portraiture, restoration, and church frescoes. He died in 1909, and his remains rest in the Bernardine Cemetery in Vilnius.