Tadeusz Kuntze (1733–1793)
• Was the pseudonym of the Polish-Silesian painter Tadeusz Konicz.
• Konicz was born in Grünberg, Silesia (now Zielona Góra, Poland) on 3 October 1733.
• He was raised in Kraków at the court of the bishop, Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, who in 1747 sent him to Rome to study.
• From 1748 to 1752 he studied at the Académie de France, and later under Ludovico Mazzanti.
• In 1756 he travelled to Paris, and in 1757 was again in Kraków at the court of Załuski.
• After Załuski's death in late 1758, Kuntze went to Spain.
• By 1766 he was again in Rome.
• Among his patrons there were the Borghese princes, and Henry Benedict Stuart.
• Kuntze died in Rome on 8 May 1793.
