JAKOBEY, Károly
(1825, Kula - 1891, Budapest)



Painter. He studied in Pest and in Vienna, and painted altar-pictures and portraits in the academic style. His paintings of ecclesiastical themes are for the most part variations of the compositions of old masters. His major portraits include the faces of J. Muraközy, Hungarian soldier, who participated in the war of independence of 1848 (1850), Ignác Nagy, writer (1854), Franz Liszt (1859), Count István Széchenyi (1860), Count Lajos Károlyi (1864). The Hungarian National Gallery possesses his paintings entitled 'Romantic Landscape with a Bridge', 'Landscape with Ruins' and the portrait of his wife (later the wife of painter Károly Lotz).


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