Regency Portraits Catalogue
Joseph Boruwlaski (1739-1837), Travelling performer and memoirist
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Polish dwarf (the 'Count' was an assumed title), much travelled, ‘of cultivated mind and high conversational poweres'; he settled in England giving occasional concerts and died near Durham aged 98.
'... my growth was slowly progressive till the age of thirty years, when I was three feet three inches high. This is the size at which I remained fixed' (Memoirs of Count Boruwlaski ... written by himself, 1788).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
'... my growth was slowly progressive till the age of thirty years, when I was three feet three inches high. This is the size at which I remained fixed' (Memoirs of Count Boruwlaski ... written by himself, 1788).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.