A Life in Miniature In the bustling streets of Warsaw, where the air of the late eighteenth century carried the weight of changing empires, Stanisław Marszałkiewicz began his life. Born in 1789, he grew into a man whose hands were destined for the most delicate of tasks. He did not seek the grand scale of massive canvases that command entire halls; instead, he found his calling in the intimate space of the portrait miniature. To look u…