Prince Władysław Czartoryski (1828-1894) was a Polish noble, political activist in exile, collector of art and founder of the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków.
Son of Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski and Princess Anna Zofia Sapieha. He married Marie Amparo Countess of Vista Alegre, daughter of Queen Cristina of Spain , by morganatic relation to the Duke of Riancares on March 1, 1855 in Malmaison near Paris.
On January 15, 1872 he married his second wife, Princess Marguerite Adelaide d'Orleans, grandaughter of King Louis-Philippe of France.
He was an activist of Hotel Lambert. In 1863-1864 Władysław was the main diplomatic agent of the revolutionary National Government (Rząd Narodowy) with the English, Italian, Swedish and Turkish governments.
He was owner of the great family collection of art: paintings, sculptures and antiquities. He was greatly interested in Egyptian art, making his purchases at sales in Paris and directly in Egypt. He donated some objects to the Polish Library in Paris and also other archeological artifacts to the Jagellonian University. In 1871, he had also donated objects to the Polish Museum in Rappeswil , Switzerland.
In 1865 he organized an exhibition of the "Czartoryski Collection" in the "Polish Room" of the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.
In 1878 he re-opened the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków, which was founded by his grandmother Izabela Czartoryska in 1801 in Puławy, but closed after the November Uprising. He died in Boulogne-sur-Seine and was burried in the Sieniawa Family crypt.
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