After the revolution he moved to Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, where he served as a schoolteacher, a lector in a state-owned printing office,[3] and in various other jobs, although he was often unemployed.

According to Serbian literary critic Jovan Skerlić, Jakšiċ was influenced mainly by Sándor Petőfi, the great Hungarian poet of the 1848 Revolution, and Lord Byron's poetry depicting the Greek War of Independence.

[citation needed] Đura Jakšić wrote about forty short stories[5] and three full-length dramas in verse on historical themes: He also wrote poems, several of which are considered among the best of 19th-century Serbian poetry: Na Liparu (On the Lipar Hill),[5] Put u Gornjak (The Road to Gornjak) and Mila, which is dedicated to his first love Mila, who he intended to marry but never found courage to tell her.

Jakšić published Pripovetke (Short Stories), which was released posthumously in two volumes on two occasions, 1882–1883 and 1902 in Belgrade.

[5] The main influences on Jakšić were Rembrandt, Diego Velázquez and Peter Paul Rubens.

[12][13] Jakšić was one of the leaders of Serbian Romanticism[14] and one of the country's greatest painters of that movement, together witk Novak Radonić.