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Gyula Benczúr

1844-1920 Hungary/Portraiture-History

 

Brief Biography-Gyula Benczúr was a disciple of Hermann Anschütz, a professor at the Royal Academy of Arts Munich. King Ludwig II commissioned him to do paintings in Rocco style. In 1876, he became a professor at the Royal Academy of Arts, and in 1883 he was a professor at the Masters’ School of Painting in Hungary. The nobility of Hungary favoured him as a portraitist. Rubens influenced some aspects of his work.

 

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Arrestation of
Ferenc Rakoczi

Arrestation of Ferenc Rakoczi two

Count Gyula
Andrassy

Count Gyula Andrassy

Lajos XVI and
his Family -

Lajos XVI and his Family

Laszlo Hunyadi's
Farewell

Laszlo Hunyadi-s Farewell


Bacchant

Bacchant

Reading
Woman

Reading Woman in the Woods


Cleopatra

Recapture
of Castle

The Recapture of Buda Castle

Queen
Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth

Louis
XV

Louis XV And Madame Dubarry

A Noble
Outfit

Portrait of a Noble Outfit


Narcissus

Narcissus

All My
Children

All My Children

baptism
of vajk

baptism of vajk