As a portraitist, he was basically a classicist, who is not always sure of drawing, and who tends to replace his formal shortcomings with warm and tender colours.
[6] In his mature years, he settled permanently in the Serbian suburb of Fabrika in the city of Timisoara, Timiș County.
He painted the iconostasis of the Orthodox Church of the summer St. Nikola in Mehala,[8] a suburb of Timisoara, together with Emanuil Antonovich, a goldsmith and painter.
It seems that in 1826, the goldsmith Aleksija Teodorović worked with Petrović and Antonović also appeared together in 1828 in Parta, where they cleaned an old iconostasis.
He worked as a painter and secular motifs, several portraits of Orthodox church dignitaries and noble citizens.
The following year, 1851, he arrived in America, where he lost all his property and studio in a fire in Los Angeles.
[16] His father and Pavel's wife officially sought him out, through consular offices, because he was not fulfilling his obligation to his family.
Sava Petrović also made portraits of the highest Serbian clerical dignitariest, metropolitans, bishops and archimandrites: