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The impressively named Juliusz Stefan Norblin de la Gourdaine, known for much of his life as the slightly more prosaic Stefan Norblin, was born on the 29th June in Warsaw.

His father, a wealthy owner of a factory that produced silverware and industrial metal components, wanted and expected Norblin to eventually take over the family firm. So, after his schooling, Stefan travelled to Antwerp where he went to the Academy of Economy and Trade completing his studies there in He started working in a paper company but Norblin was spending all his spare time drawing and painting and it became obvious to most that he should follow in the footsteps of an ancestor of his, the 18th century painter, Jan Piotr Norblin.

Stefan&#;s first artistic exhibition took place at the Memling gallery in Amsterdam in after which Stefan moved between Paris and London producing illustrations under the alias &#;Count von Luxembou