Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745-1807)

• Also was a Polish-Lithuanian draughtsman and painter.
• Franciszek Smuglewicz was born in Warsaw as son of Łukasz Smuglewicz, who was also a painter, and Regina Olesińska.
• He made his first steps as a painter in his father and Czechowicz joint workshop in Warsaw.
• In 1763 Franciszek journeyed to Rome, where he began the study of fine arts under the tutorship of Anton von Maron.
• He stayed in Rome for 21 years.
• In 1765 he received a royal scholarship from the King of Poland Stanisław August Poniatowski and was admitted into the Saint Lucas Academy.
• As a colleague of Vincenzo Brenna he participated in cataloging artifacts from Nero's Domus Aurea.
• In 1784 he returned to Warsaw, where he founded his own school of fine arts.
• In 1797 he moved to Vilnius, where he became the founder and the first deacon of the Institute of Sketch and Painting at the Academy of Vilnius. 

• A tutor of generations of Polish-Lithuanian painters, Smuglewicz devoted himself to historical paintings in the latter years of his life.

• He was buried in Vilnius at Rasos Cemetery.

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