InfoPersons, originating from Poland
Franciszek Smuglewicz
Born October 6, 1745 in Warsaw, Poland
Died September 18, 1807 in Vilnius, Lithuania
Name in Lithuanian: Pranciškus Smuglevičius.
Smuglewicz was a Polish draughtsman and painter. He is considered the first Polish historical painter and, to certain extent, a spiritual father of Jan Matejko's school.
After studying in Rome, he returned in 1784 to Warsaw, where he founded his own school of fine arts, one of the predecessors of the modern Academy of Fine Arts.
Smuglewicz became the first Polish representative of historical painting, a notion that dominated the fine arts of Poland throughout the 19th century. Around 1790 he started working on a series of sketches and lithographs inspired by Adam Naruszewicz's History of the
Franciszek Smuglewicz
painted by Józef Peszka
painted by Józef Peszka
Polish Nation. The series gained him much popularity.
In 1797 he moved to Vilnius in Lithuania, where he became the founder and the first deacon of the Institute of Sketch and Painting at the Academy of Wilno. A tutor of several generations of Polish-Lithuanian painters, Smuglewicz devoted himself to historical painting in the latter years of his life. Among his works of the period are priceless views of the city walls and city gates, demolished in 19th century.
He was buried at the Rossa Cemetery, although his grave remains unknown.
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