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}}</ref> With his bald dome and bushy white whiskers, he even looked like a character out of an illustration to ''Pan Tadeusz'', the Polish national epic by Adam Mickiewicz, set in the early 19th century. And apparently, this was no coincidence. His father, after whom he took after more and more with age, was friends with Michał Elwiro Andriolli, an Italian -Polish artist who etched well known illustrations to ''Pan Tadeusz'' and who used the elder Pożerski as a model for an a typical old-time Polish nobleman.<ref>{{Cyt