Franciszek Smuglewicz

Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745–1807) was a Polish-Lithuanian painter and founder of the Vilnius school of art. Born in Warsaw to painters, he trained in Rome from 1763 under Anton von Maron and adopted Neo-Classicism during twenty-one years in Italy. Returning to Warsaw in 1784, he opened a school and won fame with historical canvases such as The Meeting of the Four Years' Sejm (1793) and Kościuszko's Oath at Kraków (1797).

In 1797 he moved to Vilnius to lead the Institute of Sketch and Painting at the Vilnius Academy, teaching there until his death in 1807.