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Mihaly von Zichy

Mihaly von Zichy (1827 - 1906) was active/lived in Russian Federation, Hungary.  Mihaly Zichy is known for Romantic genre painting, history, portraits, illustration, court painter.

Mihaly Zichy  was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was a significant representative of Hungarian romantic painting.  During his law studies in Pest from 1842, he attended Jakab Marastoni's school as well.  In Vienna he was Ferdinand Waldmüller's pupil in 1844. Lifeboat, his first major work, comes from this time.

On Waldmüller's recommendation, he became an art teacher in St. Petersburg.  He swore allegiance to freedom by painting the portrait of Lajos Batthyány, the first Hungarian Prime Minister, in 1849.  From 1850 onwards, he worked as a retoucher, but he also did pencil drawings, water colours and portraits in oil. The series on the Gatchina hunting ordered by the Russian Tsar raised him to a court artist. He founded a society to support painters in need.

Autodafé on the horrors of Spanish Inquisition was painted in 1868. He travelled around Europe in 1871, and settled down in Paris in 1874.

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