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          Mihály Munkácsy

          Hungarian painter ()

          The native form of this personal name is Munkácsy Mihály. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

          See also: Munkácsy

          Mihály Munkácsy (20 February &#; 1 May ) was a Hungarian painter.

          He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.

          Early years

          Munkácsy was born as Mihály Leó Lieb (Hungarian: Lieb Mihály Leó)[1] to Mihály Lieb, an bureaucrat of Bavarian origin, and Cecília Reök,[2] in Munkács, Hungary, Austrian Empire, the town from which he later adopted his pseudonym.

          After being apprenticed to itinerant painter Elek Szamossy, Munkácsy went to Pest, the largest city in Hungary (now part of Budapest), where he sought the patronage of established artists.

          Mihály Munkácsy was one of Hungary's most revered and important late 19th century painters, who earned an international reputation for his genre pictures.

          With the help of the landscape artist Antal Ligeti, he received a state grant to study abroad. In , he studied at the Academy of Vienna under Karl Rahl. In , he studied at the Muni