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Franciszek Smuglewicz

1745 – 1807

Artist, founder of the Lithuanian national school of painting. Representative of classicism in the art of Poland, Lithuania and Belarus.

Classicism motifs predominate in the artist's painting (he painted mostly paintings on the themes of ancient history and the Bible, portraits and domestic scenes), with baroque elements. The drawings of the early period mainly depict ancient buildings of Rome and their ruins, landscapes of Italy. He also painted watercolors — copies of the frescoes of Roman and Etruscan graves. In addition, he painted pictures of historical and mythological subjects, and for the churches of Warsaw and other cities of Poland — religious.

Lived and worked mainly in Poland and Lithuania.

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October 6th, 1745

Born in Warsaw (the Commonwealth, now Poland) in a family of artists.

1763—1764

He studied in Rome with the Austrian artist Anton von Maron.

From 1765

He studied at the Roman Academy of St. Luke.

1784

The artist returned to Warsaw.

1785—1786

Lived and worked in Vilna.

1786—1797

Lived and worked in Warsaw, where he founded a private painting school.

From 1797

The artist returned to Vilna again, founded and headed the department of painting and drawing at the Main Vilna School (later it was transformed into the Imperial Vilna University).

1800—1801

He lived and worked in St. Petersburg, during this period he designed the interiors of the Mikhailovsky Castle.

1802

Together with his brother Anthony Smuglevich , he decorated the meeting room at the Vilnius Main School (now the Reading Room of the Vilnius University Library).

September 6th, 1807

He died in Vilna, at the moment the exact place of burial is unknown.