Franciszek Smuglewicz

1745–1807 · Neoclassicism

Franciszek Smuglewicz 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.

25 paintings

• Jesus and doubting Thomas, II
• Venus and Mars (1738)
• Scene of the crime (1800)
• Portrait of Jędrzej Śniadecki
• Portrait of a monk (1797)
• Death of Epaminondas (1797)
• Portrait of Franciszek Karpiński (1741–1825), poet
• Portrait of Wiktor Grajewski, the last border judge in Samogitia
• Ostracism over Aristides
• Offering of a Vestal (1785)
• Peasants in an Inn
• The Battle of Chocim
• Esther before Ahasuerus (1778)
• Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans (1740-1802) (1750)
• Tadeusz Kościuszko prétant serment, le 24 mars 1794. (1797)
• Święty Józef (1784)
• Ecce Homo (1785)
• Stefan Czarniecki in the Battle of Warka (1750)
• Persian Envoys before the King of Ethiopia (1785)
• Scythian Messengers Meet the Persian King Darius I (1785)
• Portrait of the Prozor Family. (1789)
• Ruins of the Biržai Castle. (1800)
• Judith with the head of Holofernes (1780)
• Biblical scene (1770)
• Lithuanian peasants (1750)