Jakab Marastoni

Jakab Marastoni, originally Jacopo Antonio Marastoni (24 March 1804, Venice – 11 July 1860, Pest) was a portrait painter and lithographer in the Austrian Empire.

In 1846, he created the Első Magyar Festészeti Akadémiát (First Hungarian Academy of Painting)[1] which, as the name suggests, was the first school in Hungary devoted exclusively to painting.

It was a private school, but numbered András Fáy, Gábor Döbrentei and Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary among its patrons and supporters.

[1] Shortly after founding the school, Marastoni was named an Honorary Citizen of Pest.

His son, Josef Marastoni [hu], was also a well-known painter and lithographer in Vienna.