With letters of recommendation and his father's financial support (and following a secret marriage), he went to Paris and enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts from 1821 to 1822, studying with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière.

He then spent a year at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, where he worked with Vincenzo Camuccini and attended the sculpture workshop of Bertel Thorvaldsen.

Three years later, he became a Professor at the "Wileński Instytut Szlachecki" (institute for the nobility) and taught there until his death.

[1] In 1856, he joined with Wincenty Dmochowski and Kazimierz Jelski in an effort to create an independent art school.

He painted altar pictures and restored frescoes in many small churches throughout Lithuania, as well as at the Vilnius Cathedral.