Tadeusz Gorecki (1825 – 1868): A Lithuanian Painter Bridging Romanticism and Realism Tadeusz Górecki (Lithuanian: Tadas Goreckis; 5 June 1825 – 31 January 1868) was a Polish-Lithuanian genre and portrait painter born in Dusenėtai (or Dusinėtai), near modern-day Vilnius. He came from an aristocratic family, the son of Antoni Gorecki, a poet and short story writer who had fled to Paris following the November Uprising. Their possessions…