Adam Zamoyski portrait of the British historian and author, descended from the ancient Polish Zamoyski noble family.
A portrait, oil on canvas, Adam Stefan Zamoyski was brought up in England, first attending St Philip’s Preparatory School in London’s South Kensington (1957-1962), then completing his secondary education at the Benedictine Downside School (1962-1966) and graduating from The Queen's College, Oxford, where he read History and Modern Languages (1967-1970). He went on to gain an Honours degree in 1974. Zamoyski first visited Poland in the 1960s. He has dual Polish-British nationality and speaks English, Polish, French, Italian and Russian. His parents, Count Stefan Zamoyski (1904-1976) and Princess Elizabeth Czartoryska (1905-1989), married in 1929 in Gołuchów, Poland, but left their homeland in 1939 soon after its invasion by Germany and Russia. When the Soviets took power at the end of World War II, they found themselves stranded in the West, eventually settling in London. Zamoyski lives in London with his wife, the painter Emma Sergeant, whom he married in 2001. They also spend some time in their second home near Zamość in south-eastern Poland, the city founded by his forefathers in the 1500s and retaining much of its Renaissance character, designed by the Italian architect, Bernardo Morando. As a landowner in Poland, Zamoyski is active in preserving the natural habitat within an area of great biodiversity. He has planted thousands of trees and restored a number of traditional wooden country cottages there.
Size: 2567px × 3500px
Location: Roma
Photo credit: © André Durand / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: Yes
Keywords: adam, biography, chopin, count, knight, malta, polish, portrait, stefan, writer, zamoyski
