[1] He was the pupil of Petar Pilić and Nikola Aleksić before he went to study art in Vienna in 1851.

In addition to religious themes and historical compositions, he also painted portraits in which he reached the highest peaks.

[7] As a visual chronicler of Serbian civil society, with an exceptional feeling for the characteristics of the character, he left a whole gallery of portraits of friends and distinguished contemporaries.

[7] A special unit of his consists of self-portraits in which he gives a romantic analysis of the subject's own character and mental condition.

[7] Radonić, Pavle Simić, and Đura Jakšić were the culmination of Serbian Romanticism.