Buzási Enikő szerk.: In Europe' Princely Courts, Ádám Mányoki, Actors and venues of a portraitist's career (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 2003/1)
Enikő Buzási CATALOGUE
PORTRAIT OF A NOBLEMAN IN ARMOUR Attributed to Adám Mányoki Around 1718 Oil, canvas; 135x98 cm Krakow, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, inv. no.: XII A-32 From the Czapski collection, Krakow. 46. 47. COUNT GEORG WILHELM VON WERTHERN (1679 - after 1732) Son of Johann Georg Werthern (1652-1681) and Catharina Sophia Marschall, of the Bâchera line of the family. After studies at Leipzig University in 1695-1703, he became secret councillor and marshal to the Trier court, and ambassador to Regensburg. In 1706, he was raised to the rank of count. He was chamberlain of the Polish king and Saxon elector, Saxon cabinet minister from 1710, and court marshal from 1732. He was holder of the great cross of the St Michael Order. In 1716, he married Baroness Maria Antonia Knebel von Katzenellenbogen (1698-1760), dame of the Star-Cross Order. This line of the family died out in 1767. Adám Mányoki 1719 Oil, canvas; 82x69 cm Signed on the back: "ADe Manyoki fecit Dresdae 1719" Inscribed on the back: "GR. ZICHY JENŐ HAGYATÉKÁBÓL / A SZÉKESFŐVÁROS TULAJDONA" (From Count Jenő Zichy's estate / Property of the Capital) Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, inv. no.: 54.327 In the Festetich collection in Vienna until 1859, then owned by count Jenő Zichy also in Vienna. From 1906 housed in the Count Jenő Zichy Museum of the Capital Citv of Budapest. Transferred in 1953 from the Zichy collection of the former Municipal Gallery to the Museum of Fine Arts. In the Hungarian National Gallery since 1974. 48. SOPHIE MAGDALENA, DUCHESS OF BRANDENBURG-KULMBACH, QUEEN OF DENMARK (1700-1770), DRESSED FOR THE CARNIVAL Daughter of Christian Heinrich, margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Sophie Christiane von WolfsteinSulzbürg. She married Christian VI, king of Denmark (1699-1746), in August 1721. Adám Mányoki 1720 (1722?) Oil, canvas; 210x127 cm Inscription copied to the old doubling canvas: "Sophie Magdalena, La Reine de Dänemarc Princesse de Culmbach 1720." Front bottom right corner, inv. number that cannot be identified in any 18 th-century inventory of the Dresden collection: "1710" Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, inv. no.: S 1370 From the royal collection of Saxony. Given to Dresden in 1924. Went from Bad Elster to the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in 1945. 49. PRESUMED PORTRAIT OF WOLF GOTTLOB VON NOSTTTZ (7-1759) Member of a large noble family of Wendic origin with branches in Czech, Silesian, Oberlausitz and Saxon areas. The Oberlausitz and Saxon branches were among the oldest and most prestigious families there, with several members raised to the rank of count and baron. The model is presumably Wolf Gottlob von Nostitz in the Jänckendorf line of the family. His father, Johann Caspar (fl706) was the founder of the Jänckendorf line who acquired Ober-Oppach. Wolf Gottlob died without a male successor in 1759. He was a Knight of Malta. Attributed to Adám Mányoki Around 1720-1723 Oil, canvas; 79x63 cm Bautzen, Stadtmuseum, inv. no.: 9625 From the familv's manorial estate in Oppach, Oberlausitz, 1946.
