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| Miklós Barabás (1810–1898) | ||||||||||
| Barabás was born in Kézdimárkosfalva, Hungary, and studied at the college in Nagyenyed. He began portrait painting from an early age and studied in Vienna in 1829 under Johann Nepomuk Ender. In 1830, he studied lithography under Gábor Barra. He travelled to Romania, where he was a successful portraitist, and a trip to Italy between 1834 and 1835 had a positive effect on his work. His watercolour technique was influenced by the English painter William Leighton Leitch. By 1835, he enjoyed much success in Pest, where he lived and helped establish the city as an artistic centre. Due to financial difficulties in the 1850s, Barabás turned to photography and painting altarpieces. He was the first Hungarian painter to make a living from his work, which was made possible by his skilful cultivation of all genres and techniques of portrait painting. He also excelled in landscape painting, and his works are characterised by deep, fine colouring, although some reveal that his composition and drawing ability had been somewhat lacking. Barabás died in Debrecen. | ||||||||||
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