Tihamér Margitay

He painted anecdotic, so-called "parlour pictures", in the style of Jules Bastien-Lepage.

[1] He studied at the Model Drawing School and Drawing Teacher Training School in Budapest between 1874 and 1879, as a student of Bertalan Székely and Gyula Benczúr and in Munich with O.Seitz.

In 1879, he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, as a state scholarship holder.

After his return home, he had the opportunity to appear before the wider public for the first time in 1881, when his work "Római dáridó" was exhibited in the Műcsarnok.

In 1884, he received a state commission to paint a full-length portrait of Palatine József.