To celebrate this successful excavation Beauclerk commissioned Franciszek Smuglewicz to paint a portrait of him and his family at the site (the painting is now at Cheltenham Art Gallery).
Among the notable surviving works of that period are A Meeting of the Four Years' Sejm (1793) and Kościuszko's Oath at Kraków's Old Town Market (1797), Lithuanian Peasants, Freeing Peasants from Serfdom in Merkinė.
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In 1763 Franciszek journeyed to Rome, where he began the study of fine arts under the tutorship of Anton von Maron.
Franciszek Lessel | Franciszek Smuglewicz | Franciszek Maksymilian Ossoliński | Franciszek Karpiński | Kościuszko's proclamation on a contemporary painting by Franciszek Smuglewicz | Franciszek Starowieyski | Franciszek Smuda | Franciszek Pius Radziwiłł | Franciszek Latinik | Franciszek Ksawery Branicki | Franciszek Jarecki | Franciszek Fiszer | Franciszek Fesser | Franciszek Chalupka |
Heroic resistance of Polish forces became a symbol, and was glorified and immortalised in the paintings of Franciszek Smuglewicz, Józef Peszka and Aleksander Lesser.