János Valentiny

János Valentiny (1 January 1842, Nagylak - 25 February 1902, Nádasdladány) was a Hungarian painter of portraits, landscapes and genre scenes.

His international reputation is based on his realistic, unromanticized portrayals of the Hungarian Romani (Gypsies).

Soon, he was producing color portraits of his friends and family and saved enough money to move to Pest, where he studied at the First Hungarian Academy of painting under Jakab Marastoni.

[1] With the Count's encouragement, he went to Paris, where he obtained the patronage of Richard von Metternich, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador, by which means he was able to enroll at the Academy.[which?

In 1878, he returned to Munich and produced paintings showing his newly acquired Italian influences, but remained only a short time before settling permanently in Nádasdladány.