Stefan Stefanović, who lived and worked in Novi Sad and Budapest,[1] is said to have been only nineteen years of age when he wrote the 1826 tragic drama "Death of Stefan Uroš V the Last Serbian Tsar", which would place his birth about the year 1807.
Stefanović read German authors in the original language and translated them into modern Serbian.
He basically lived all his life in Novi Sad where he was born and Pest, Hungary, where he studied.
Stefanović's drama about the life and death of the last Serbian tsar — Stefan Uroš V of Serbia — was frequently performed and it was popular at the time.
It is assumed that such a theatrical performance must have been the source of inspiration for the painting of the scene subject by Serbian artist Novak Radonić in 1857.