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Hungarian painter
Soma Orlai Petrich
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Orlay_Petrich_Soma_hungarian_painter_1880.jpg/220px-Orlay_Petrich_Soma_hungarian_painter_1880.jpg) Portrait in 1878
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Born
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1822-10-22
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October 22, 1822
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Died
| June 5, 1880
(1880-06-05)
(aged 57)
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Resting place
| Kerepes Cemetery
, Budapest
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Style
| Historical Scenes, Portraits
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Soma Orlai Petrich
, aka
Soma Orlay-Petrich
(October 22, 1822,
Mez?bereny
- June 5, 1880,
Budapest
) was a
Hungarian
painter famous for his historical paintings and portraits.
[1]
Dorottya Kaniszai (1490-?) Gathering the Dead after the
Battle at Mohacs
(1860s)
He born to a staunchly
evangelical
Serbian
father and Hungarian mother Karolina Salkovics (whose portrait is one of his best known works) in the highland border town of Mez?bereny. He studied in
Sarvas, Croatia
and
Sopron
before taking a law degree in
Papa
Reformed College. There, he studied with his second cousin, national hero and poet
Sandor Pet?fi
, and the two travelled together widely. After painting his cousin's parents, Petrich's obvious talent caused him to abandon his original dream of becoming a writer, and he began studying at
Jakab Marastoni
art school in 1846, then attended
Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller
's school in
Vienna
beginning in 1847,
Wilhelm von Kaulbach
in
Munich
in 1850, and also took instruction in
Rome
and
Paris
.
He often painted historical themes and in his lithographs he portrayed experiences during the war of independence. Arguably his most famous painting, "The Discovery of
Louis II [of Hungary]
's Body" (1851) inspired others to paint on the same subject, including
Bertalan Szekely
a decade later.
He was also a popular portraitist, and made a good living in
Debrecen
and
Vienna
before settling in
Pest
following the founding of its permanent collection. By 1861, he was on the board of directors of the National Hungarian Society of Fine Arts with
Miklos Barabas
,
Jen? Zichy
, and
Than Mor
.
[2]
Though he suffered from
seizures
his whole life, he produced at least one major work from 1851 until
Coriolanus
in 1869.
Selected Works
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Maria Hruz
[mother of Sandor Pet?fi] (c. 1845), Pet?fi Literary Museum
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Discovery of King Louis II's Body
(1851), Library of the Reformed College, Debrecen
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Artist's Mother
(early 1850s),
Hungarian National Museum
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Detail of
Sappho
(c. 1860),
Hungarian National Museum
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Coriolanus
(1869), Munkacsy Mihaly Museum,
Bekescsaba
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