Peter Michal Bohúň

Peter Michal Bohúň (29 September 1822, Veličná - 20 May 1879, Bielsko-Biała) was a Slovak painter, primarily of portraits, although he also did landscapes and altarpieces.

Due to political unrest, the Hungarian government closed the seminary in 1841, so he moved to Kežmarok, where he studied law and began to paint as a hobby.

[1] His father died in 1844, cutting off his financial support, so he sought and obtained the patronage of a nobleman from Orava named Michał Kubín.

[1] In addition to painting, he studied lithography and made some illustrations for the botanical dictionary of Jan Svatopluk Presl.

In 1854, he and his family moved to Liptovský Mikuláš, where he spent eleven years as a drawing teacher at the Lutheran girls' school,[1] dabbled in photography and decorated curtains for amateur theater groups.