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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COURT PAINTER TO FERENC RÁKÓCZI II IN HUNGARY AND DURING HIS EMIGRATION IN GDANSK 20. PRINCE FERENC RÁKÓCZI II (1676-1735) Prince of Transylvania and of the Hungarian parts organised against Habsburg rule. The son of Ferenc Rákóczi I (1645-1676) and Ilona Zrínyi (1643-1703), he was born to a family of Transylvanian princes. He studied first with the Jesuits in Neuhaus, Bohemia, from 1688, then at Prague University. He was lord lieutenant [főispán] of Sáros County from 1694, the same year in which he married Charlotte Amalie, duchess of Hessen-Rheinfels. In 1696 the title of prince of the empire was conferred upon him. Accused of conspiracy against Vienna, he was imprisoned in 1701, but soon escaped. He became the leader of the revolt of 1703, turning it into a war of independence for Hungary. He was elected Prince of Transylvania in 1704, and prince of the Hungarian parts allied against Austria at the Szécsény diet in 1705. While he was on a diplomatic mission to Poland in 1711, the 21. Treaty of Szatmár with Austria in 1711 ended the war of independence. Rákóczi thus remained as an emigre in Poland. He went to Paris in 1713 and withdrew into the Camaldulian monastery at Grosbois in 1715. From 1717 to his death he lived in Rodostó, Turkey. With the intervention of Louis XIV of France, he was awarded the order of the Golden Fleece by Philip V (of Anjou) in 1708, but he could not receive it until 1712. Attributed to Adám Mányoki 1707 Oil, canvas; 77,5x55 cm Inscribed by an unknown hand in bottom left corner in white paint: "Manyoky pinxit Ao. 1705." A later inscription in white paint in the top right corner, now badly faded: "Francois Rákóczy [sic] Prince de Transylv." Budapest, Hungarian National Museum, Historical Portrait Gallery, inv. no.: 65.8 From the Radvánszky family in Radvány. In the royal palace from 1933, whereabouts unknown for a few years after 1945, and in the possession of the Council of Ministers from 1957. In the Hungarian National Museum since 1965. 21. WIFE OF FERENC RÁKÓCZI II, CHARLOTTE AMALIE, DUCHESS OF HESSEN-RHEINFELS (1679-1722) Daughter of Charles, elector of Hessen-Rheinfels. She married Ferenc Rákóczi II in 1694. She made several