Polish painter-batalist.

Jan Styka born was April 8, 1858 in Lemberg, died was April 11, 1925 in Rome. was a Polish painter noted for producing large historical, battle-piece, and Christian religious panoramas.

The son of a Czech officer in Austria-Hungary, Styka attended school in his native Lemberg (now Lviv) then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria following which he took up residence in Kraków in 1882 where he studied historical painting under Jan Matejko. Next, he came back to Lwów and opened there a workshop. Here, together with a celebrated Polish historical painter Wojciech Kossak, they created his most famous work in Poland – The Racławice Panorama.

Among Styka's important works is the large scene of Saint Peter preaching the Gospel in the Catacombs (seen here) painted in Paris in 1902. His renowned panoramas include Bem in Siedmiogrod (1897), The Martydrom of Christians in Nero's Circus (1897), and the Wrocław Branch of the National Museum of Poland houses the monumental collaboration The Battle of Racławice painted in 1894. Styka died in 1925 and was buried in Rome.