Johann Rombauer

He may have studied with the Danish-born painter, Johannes Jacob Stunder [sk] in Besztercebánya (Banská Bystrica).

At the age of nineteen, he began working as a portraitist in Pest (today Budapest).

Around 1805, probably in Bártfa (Bardejov), he met the Polish aristocrat, Józef August Iliński [pl] who, at that time, was in the service of the Russian government.

He and his wife returned to Hungary in 1824 and settled in Eperjes (Prešov), where his brothers Matthäus (1776–1840), a goldsmith, and Samuel (born 1798), a butcher, both lived.

He painted numerous portraits of the nobility, Hungarian as well as Russian, and many prominent citizens of the Kingdom of Hungary.