Buzási Enikő szerk.: In Europe' Princely Courts, Ádám Mányoki, Actors and venues of a portraitist's career (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 2003/1)
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JOHANN FRIEDRICH SAPIEHA (I68O-1751) Chancellor of Lithuania, starosta of Brzesk from 1698, castellan of Trock from 1716. The next year he entered the court of Dresden, where he became the marshal of Lithuania in 1729. Augustus III appointed him chancellor of Lithuania in 1735. As a patron of scholarship, he was interested in history. He helped to publish several books and accumulated a considerable library himself. He was elected knight of the White Eagle Order. Johann Christoph Sysang (1703-1757) After Adám Mányoki's portrait painted around 1735 1749 Engraving; 308x196 mm (plate size) Signed right: "Sysang sc." Inscription: "Johann Friedrich Sapieha des Hl: Rom: Reichs Graf in Koden Groß=Kantzler von Lithauen Ritter des Königl: Poln: Weissen Adler =Ordens" Reproduced in J. H. Zedier: "Grosses vollständiges Universal Lexikon Aller Wissenschaften und Künste. Th. 60. Halle und Leipzig 1749." as its frontispiece. Budapest, National Széchényi Librarv 87. COUNT GUSTAV ADOLF VON GÖTTER (1692-1762) A diplomat, he studied law at the universities of Jena and Halle. He was the envoy to Vienna of the duchy of Gotha from 1720, then of the Berlin court in 1732-1736, and later of the duchy of Württemberg. He was appointed privy councillor by Frederick William I in 1728, and grand marshal of the Prussian court in 1740. Decorated with the Alexander Nevsky Order by the Russian tsar in 1727, and with the Black Eagle Order by the Prussian king in September 1731, he became the first person of low birth to be thus distinguished. In 1724 he received the title of baron, and in 1740 that of count. Withdrawn from the life of the court for awhile, he purchased the castle of Molsdorf near Gotha in 1734, where he accumulated a considerable picture collection. A favourite socialite, he was also a member of the secular order founded in the Gotha court, "Ordre des Heremites de bonne humeur." In 1743 he became the intendant of the Berlin opera. Attributed to Adám Mányoki mi-mi Oil, canvas; 69x56 cm On the back: collection seal Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, inv. no.: 85.1. M Formerly in Gustav Hoschek's collection in Prague. The Hungarian National Gallery bought it on the art market in 1985. Earlier it was in Győr, and prior to that in Nagykanizsa. 88. BARONESS SWIHOWSKA, BORN GRUNDMANN A member of the old Czech families of barons Reisenberg and counts Swihowski, and of the Grundmann family of Silesian origin, known from the 17 th century. Adám Mányoki 1747 Oil, canvas; 55x43 cm Signed on the back: "A. de Mányoki pinxit 1747" Inscribed in a badly faded 18 th-century hand on a label stuck to the blind frame: "Elect[m?]a [illegible line] Baronesse .... Swihowska née de Grundmann. Peint par A de Mani[o]ky [17J47" Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, inv. no.: 6350 Acquired from a private collection in Dresden, it was permanently deposited in the Museum of Fine Arts by the Society of the Friends of Art Museums in 1929. In the Hungarian National Gallery since 1974. 89. PORTRAIT OF A MAN (PRESUMABLY AUGUSTUS II, KING OF POLAND AND ELECTOR OF SAXONY) Adám Mányoki 1736 Oil, canvas; 68,5x56 cm Signed on the original canvas, back, faintlv: "A. de Mánvoki pinxit 1736" Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, inv. no.: 61.3. M Purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts in 1961. In the Hungarian National Gallery since 1974. Ill
