Takács Imre – Buzási Enikő – Jávor Anna – Mikó Árpád szerk.: A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria Évkönyve, Művészettörténeti tanulmányok Mojzer Miklós hatvanadik születésnapjára (MNG Budapest, 1991)

RAJNAI, Miklós: Tobias Stranover 1684-1756

characteristics are far from general but occur often enough to associate them with him. Unlike Bogdáni he sometimes dated his pictures. The earliest of these are from the late 1710s, the latest from 1731. This is some help but not enough to chart with any reliability his development, especially if one considers the length of his lifespan. A larger corpus of safely attributed paintings than available at present and more biographical information is needed for a just assessment of Stranover's 46 oeuvre. NOTES * This paper was written before H. Takács Marianne's publication in the Művészettörténeti Értesítő 37 (1988), printed in April 1991. It contains some welcome information about the childhood of both Stranover and Bogdáni. 1 Thieme-Becker Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, vol. 32. Leipzig 1938,155. 2 Later Nagyszeben; Sibiu in Rumanian; Hermannstadt in German. 3 Sighisoara in Rumanian; Schässburg in German. 4 Bénézü, E.: Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs etc., vol. 8. 5 Fuessli, J. R.: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, part 1. 6 Nagler, G. K.: Künstler-lexikon, vol. 17. It mentions among his specialities flower pieces and dead game as well. 7 Roth, V: Siebenbürgische Altäre. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte. Strassburg 1916, 192. 8 Hagedom op. cit. 666-7. 9 Lugt no. 830. Sale catalogue in British Library. 10 Quoted by Gömöri, Gy.: Lord Paget magyar pártfogoltjai. Irodalomtörténeti közlemények 90 (1986) 293, note 14. 11 Somerset Record Office D/P/w.as. 2/1/2. 12 Public Record Office, London, Prob. 6/132 fol. 88. 13 Gömöri, op. cit. 292-3. 14 „a Szebeni pictor Jeremias Stranovius Öttsét Tóbiást, ki is a Török Portán lévő, ez előtt mint egy 13. esztendővel Erdélyen által jött Angliai követtel Wilhelmus Pagettel jött volt ide, és már a pictorok között, kivált in volatilibus, floribus et fructubus delineandis excellai, consultáltam. és igirte hagy annak idejében a leg jobb piketornak commendál". Published in Peregrinuslevelek 1711-1750, ed. Hoffman, G. Adattár XVI-XVIII századi szellemi mozgalmaink történetéhez, vol. 6. Szeged 1980, 59. 15 Dictionary of National Biography. 16 Gömöri, op. cit. provides the identification of all seven youths. 17 They must have lived near Bogdáni, both of whose known residences were in the Parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields: Tower Street (1688) and Great Queen Street (1724). Three of his five children were baptised in the same church as his granddaughter, Susanna Stranover: St Paul's Covent Garden. 18 Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Trevor 472. Also Orszâgh, E: James Bogdani, magyar festő III. Vilmos és Anna Királynő udvarában. Studies in English Philology. 2 (1937) 99. Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Bischop 222. Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Bolton 23. 21 1824 nos. 257, 264, 284, 285. They occur within a short span of time: 5th October - 12th November 1724. The first refers to the Stranovers as the inhabitants of the Parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the rest as of St. Paul's Covent Garden. 22 Dictionary of National Biography. 23 British Library, Add MS 6402 fol. 31. 24 This sounds like William living with his sister and brother-inlaw whose departure forced him to return to his rooms in the Tower of London, where he worked as a Civil Servant in the Office of Ordnance. 25 Both letters are in the possession of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society. 26 Hagedorn, op. ciL 665. 27 Pauli, G.: Gemälde in Schloss zu Ahrenburg, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 4 (1935) 4. 28 In the possession of Mr Simon Jervis; descended in the family from Sir Everard Buckworth. A photocopy is with the present writer through the generosity of Mr. Jervis. 29 Presumably Susanna, mentioned before. According to a supplement to the manuscript, Stranover's daughter „

married to a Gentleman of Sussex" [? Mr. Gordon]. 30 Probably SirEverard Buckworth-Herne, Fifth Baronet (1732-1814), who succeeded to the title in 1801 and one of whose sisters' married name was Clayton. See Complete Baronetage, vol. 4. 1904, and Maddison, A. R: Lincolnshire Pedigrees, London voL 1. The Haiieian Society Publications, vol. 50, 1902. 31 Susanna visited the place when a child, probably during the course of their 1733 continental journey, and found that the house had been turned into an inn. 32 Kolozsvár in Hungarian, CIuj-Napoca in Rumanian. 33 There is no mention of him being a painter. 34 They travelled with a tutor and servants. 35 Stranover left Transylvania in the year of his father's death so this is definitely incorrect. 36 Pápai Párizs letter (1715); Richard Mead sale catalogue (1754); the obituary announcement and the commemorative verse (both 1756). 37 Orszâgh, op. cit. 7. 38 The meaning of model in 1686 is described as follows: "[it] Is any object that a painter works by, either after Nature, or otherwise; but most commonly it signifies that which Sculptors, Painters and Architects make to Govern them19 20