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Ján Kupecký (1667 – 1740)

• Was a Czech portrait painter during the baroque.
• He was active in Hungary, Vienna and Nürnberg.
• He was the son of Protestant (Czech Brethren) parents from the Czech lands (Mladá Boleslav) who sought refuge in Royal Hungary from religious persecution by the Catholics.
• He was born in Pezinok - a town near Pressburg.
• During his visit in Prague he worked together with Petr Jan Brandl.
• He painted portraits of various members of the dynasty, Prince Eugene of Savoy, several aristocrats, in Karlovy Vary the Russian Czar Peter I.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Self-portrait of the Artist at work on the Likeness of his Wife, 1711
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