Aksentije Marodić

[1] He was born in Subotica, the son of Maksim, a tailor, and Ljubica Marodić.

He was an apprentice of painter Petar Pilić in Senta in 1851–55, then of Nikola Aleksić in Novo Miloševo.

The next year he moved to Bečej, where he made acclaimed portraits and painted the church of baroness Jović in 1861.

He then lived and worked in Italy, and upon his return published travelogues in the magazines Zastava and Javor in 1874.

Marodić was the first academic painter from Subotica and a representative of academicism and romanticism in Serbian painting in the second half of the 19th century.