Artist
Franciszek Smuglewicz
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1745–1807
Franciszek Smuglewicz was a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Neoclassicism artist. 16 works are cataloged here, principally at National Museum in Warsaw. Franciszek Smuglewicz was born in Warsaw.
Franciszek Smuglewicz (Lithuanian: Pranciškus Smuglevičius; 6 October 1745 – 18 September 1807) was a Polish-Lithuanian draughtsman and painter. Smuglewicz is considered a progenitor of Lithuanian art in the modern era. He was precursor of historicism in Polish painting.
He was also a founder of Vilnius school of art, his most prominent students were Jan Rustem, Jan Krzysztof Damel, Gaspar Borowski and Józef Oleszkiewicz. His father Łukasz Smuglewicz and brother Antoni were also painters.
Works by Franciszek Smuglewicz
Portrait of Franciszek Karpiński (1741–1825), poet
Venus and Mars
Saint Charles Borromeo attending to the ill
Portrait of Jędrzej Śniadecki
Portrait of Wiktor Grajewski, the last border judge in Samogitia
Victory of Alexander the Great over Poros, king of India, in 326
Death of Lucretia
Portrait of Jan Stefan Giedroyc (d. 1803), bishop of Vilnius
Portrait of a monk
Death of Epaminondas
Offering of a Vestal
The Battle of Chocim
Jesus and doubting Thomas, II
Scene of the crime
Ostracism over Aristides
Peasants in an Inn
Collections represented
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