Piotr Stachiewicz was born in 1858 in Poland. He was a painter and illustrator. He graduated from the Lviv University of Technology. In the years 1877-1883 he studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, including with J. Matejko, and in the years 1883-1885 at the Munich Academy with O. Seitz. He traveled to Italy and the Holy Land. Piotr Stachiewicz painted genre scenes, portraits, salon studies of elegant ladies and girls in folk costumes, and paintings on religious themes, the most famous of which is the series "Legend about the Mother of God" from 1892-1893. He created a series of paintings based on the novel by H. Sienkiewicz and poetry A. Mickiewicz. He dealt with book illustration, illustrating, inter alia, "Quo vadis?" Sienkiewicz and "Bajki" by JI Kraszewski.

Piotr Stachiewicz was a painter and illustrator. He graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic. In the years 1877-1883 he studied painting at the Krakow School of Fine Arts, including with J. Matejko, and in the years 1883-1885 at the Munich Academy with O. Seitz. Stachiewicz traveled to Italy and the Holy Land. He painted genre scenes, portraits, salon studios of elegant ladies and girls in folk costumes and paintings on religious themes, the most famous of which is the "Legend of the Mother of God" series from 1892 - 1893. He created a series of paintings painted according to the novel by H. Sienkiewicz and poetry A. Mickiewicz. He dealt with book illustration, illustrating, among others "Quo vadis?" Sienkiewicz and "Bajki" J.I. Kraszewski.