...Boznańska is regarded as a pioneer of gender equality in art, being the first generation of Polish female artists to practice art as a profession. She received a thorough education; she took private lessons with Kazimierz Pochwalski and Józef Siedlecki, and continued her studies at Adrian Baraniecki School for Women where she was taught by Hipolit Lipiński and Antoni Piotrowski. Boznańska’s decision to become a professional artist was very mature and had nothing to do with dabbling in art as recreation, so popular with young society ladies at the time. “Boznańska always had her own artistic atelier. She liked to stress that she won artistic acclaim without any “favouritism” and that she owed her strong position in Paris’s cultural life to her work. She did not let the fact that she was a woman preclude her from pursuing her life’s only goal – artistic expression,” Renata Higersberger said. [https://www.polska.pl/arts/visual-arts/olga-boznanska-citizen-europe-warsaw/]