Identified! [Polish ambassador to the US, Tytus Filipowicz, posing for artist Leon Makielski] (LOC)
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When: 01 January 1930
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[Polish ambassador to the US, Tytus Filipowicz, posing for artist Leon Makielski]
[1930]
1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2020)
Date based on date of negatives in same range.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
Subjects:
United States.
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Harris & Ewing photograph collection (DLC) 2009632509
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.36072
Call Number: LC-H2- B-4265
Source: Flickr Commons
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[Polish ambassador to the US, Tytus Filipowicz, posing for artist Leon Makielski]
[1930]
1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2020)
Date based on date of negatives in same range.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
Subjects:
United States.
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Harris & Ewing photograph collection (DLC) 2009632509
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.36072
Call Number: LC-H2- B-4265
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Owner: The Library of CongressSource: Flickr Commons
Views: 8702
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swanq
One hypothesis is that this an ambassador to the United States (since Harris & Ewing mainly worked in Washington, DC) in his diplomatic uniform, having his portrait painted. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_uniform See www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/mamoru-shigemitsu-t... for a Japanese ambassador with a similar hat and embroidered coat. See www.bidd.org.rs/diplomatic-consular-suits-in-the-19th-and... for Serbian diplomatic uniforms. The first photo has a uniform that is quite similar to this one in its embroidery.
swanq
Could this be en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Pitamic who served as the ambassador of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the United States between 1929 and 1935? He is listed in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_Serbia_to_th...
swanq
That looks like a dead end. The Evening Star. March 19, 1933, Page 8 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1933-03-19/ed-... has a photo of Pitamic in his diplomatic uniform and the embroidery close to the collar is not the same.
swanq
I think I've found the right ambassador. See www.pilsudski.org.uk/en/aktualnosci.php?news=244&wid=12 Tytus Filipowicz en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tytus_Filipowicz It looks as though he was the ambassador from Poland to the United States from 1929 to 1932. See also www.biogramy.pl/a/biografia/tytus-filipowicz-dyplomata#photo for some photos, including www.biogramy.pl/a/foto/zlozenie-listow-uwierzytelniajacyc... which has him in the same outfit as he wore for the portrait in the H&E photo
Fraser P
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Yup, that's your man I'd say. Well found. You now know more about ambassadors to the United States than you ever thought you would 😂
swanq
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/fraserpettigrew] : Indeed! I've just found from www.google.com/books/edition/The_Michigan_Alumnus/2vLhAAA... that he sat for a portrait by Leon A. Makeiski in late 1930. Makielski has a Wikipedia entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Makielski but it doesn't have a photo. The photo in his Ann Arbor obituary at aadl.org/node/83749 is a possible match, but far from conclusive.
Fraser P
Ah, here you go - the self-same pair. Filipowicz looks like he's had enough of sitting for portraits and photographs of him sitting for portraits. thejewishnews.com/event/a-portrait-of-ann-arbor-leon-maki...
swanq
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/fraserpettigrew] : Great, I needed to take a nap myself. I love his feet on the cushions in this second picture. Detroit Free Press. February 8, 1931, page 51 www.newspapers.com/newspage/97791614/ looks to show the portrait. quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-2016079 lists a drawing by Makielski of Filipowicz as from 1930,
wertheim
Amazing detective work here.
Jon (LOC P&P)
Thanks https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]! I would have been happy with just the identification of the sitter, but you found the artist also. We'll add this information to the catalog record.