Brief Biography-Wincenty Smokowski began his studies at Vilnius University and went to the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts in 1823. Through Jan Rustem, he became an assistant professor at Vilnius University; after the university’s closure, he instructed drawing classes for five years in a Vilnius Grammar school. In 1831 he took up medical studies and began practising in 1836. He married in 1841 and moved to Warsaw, where he continued painting as a doctor until retirement in 1858. He was also an illustrator, cartoonist, and writer on art subjects.