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[[File:Rombauer-Selfportrait.jpg|thumb|200px|Self-portrait (1813)]]
'''Ján Rombauer''', also '''János''' or '''Johann''' (28 May 1782, [[Levoča]] - 12 February 1849, [[Prešov]]) was a [[Slovakia]]n portrait painter of German ancestry. He also worked for a time in [[Saint Petersburg]].
== Biography ==
He came from a family of nine children. His father, David Rombauer (1742–1806), an ethnic German Protestant, was a woodcarver. He may have studied with the Danish-born painter, in [[Banská Bystrica]].
At the age of nineteen, he began working as a portraitist in Budapest. His first known [[Miniature portrait|miniature]] dates from 1802. Around 1805, probably in [[Bardejov]], he met the Polish aristocrat, who, at that time, was in the service of the Russian government. Impressed by his talent, he invited him to his estate near [[Romaniv]], in Ukraine. By 1806, he was living and working in Saint Petersburg; teaching as well as painting. In 1818, he married Amalie Baumann (c.1795-1843), a [[Baltic German]]. During his stay, he became a member of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts]] and took part in their exhibitions. [[Vladimir Borovikovsky]] and [[Orest Kiprensky]] seem to have had a significant influence on his style.
He and his wife returned to Slovakia in 1824 and settled in Prešov, where his brothers Matej (1776-1840), a [[goldsmith]], and Samuel (born 1798), a butcher, both lived. Their only child, Matilda, was born in 1829.
He painted numerous portraits of the nobility, Hungarian as well as Russian, and many prominent citizens of Slovakia. In 1835, he received a commission to paint portraits of the faculty at the Lutheran College. He also created religious works. Altogether, he is known to have created 248 works, although many have been lost. His surviving works may been seen in the [[Hermitage Museum]], the [[Tretyakov Gallery]] and the [[Slovak National Gallery]].<ref>Beńová, Katarína (ed.): ''Ján Rombauer (1782 - 1849): Levoča - Petrohrad - Prešov.'' Bratislava: Slovenská národní galerie, 2010. ISBN 978-80-8059-149-6</ref>
==Selected portraits==
<gallery mode=packed heights=210>
File:Ján Rombauer - Portrait of Countess Barkóczy - O 2908 - Slovak National Gallery.jpg|Countess Barkóczy
File:Rombauer fessler.jpg|[[Ignaz Aurelius Fessler]]
File:Kutaisova Lopukhina by Rombauer.jpg|Praskovya Kutaisova, wife of
File:Vladislav Aleksandrovič Ozerov.jpg|[[Vladislav Ozerov]]
File:Józef August Iliński.jpg|Józef August Iliński
</gallery>
== References ==
==External links==
* [https://ift.tt/2UtcKmY Biography and paintings] @ ''Napoleon and Revolution'' (blog)
[[Category:1782 births]]
[[Category:1849 deaths]]
[[Category:Slovak painters]]
[[Category:Portrait painters]]
[[Category:People from Levoča]]
'''Ján Rombauer''', also '''János''' or '''Johann''' (28 May 1782, [[Levoča]] - 12 February 1849, [[Prešov]]) was a [[Slovakia]]n portrait painter of German ancestry. He also worked for a time in [[Saint Petersburg]].
== Biography ==
He came from a family of nine children. His father, David Rombauer (1742–1806), an ethnic German Protestant, was a woodcarver. He may have studied with the Danish-born painter, in [[Banská Bystrica]].
At the age of nineteen, he began working as a portraitist in Budapest. His first known [[Miniature portrait|miniature]] dates from 1802. Around 1805, probably in [[Bardejov]], he met the Polish aristocrat, who, at that time, was in the service of the Russian government. Impressed by his talent, he invited him to his estate near [[Romaniv]], in Ukraine. By 1806, he was living and working in Saint Petersburg; teaching as well as painting. In 1818, he married Amalie Baumann (c.1795-1843), a [[Baltic German]]. During his stay, he became a member of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts]] and took part in their exhibitions. [[Vladimir Borovikovsky]] and [[Orest Kiprensky]] seem to have had a significant influence on his style.
He and his wife returned to Slovakia in 1824 and settled in Prešov, where his brothers Matej (1776-1840), a [[goldsmith]], and Samuel (born 1798), a butcher, both lived. Their only child, Matilda, was born in 1829.
He painted numerous portraits of the nobility, Hungarian as well as Russian, and many prominent citizens of Slovakia. In 1835, he received a commission to paint portraits of the faculty at the Lutheran College. He also created religious works. Altogether, he is known to have created 248 works, although many have been lost. His surviving works may been seen in the [[Hermitage Museum]], the [[Tretyakov Gallery]] and the [[Slovak National Gallery]].<ref>Beńová, Katarína (ed.): ''Ján Rombauer (1782 - 1849): Levoča - Petrohrad - Prešov.'' Bratislava: Slovenská národní galerie, 2010. ISBN 978-80-8059-149-6</ref>
==Selected portraits==
<gallery mode=packed heights=210>
File:Ján Rombauer - Portrait of Countess Barkóczy - O 2908 - Slovak National Gallery.jpg|Countess Barkóczy
File:Rombauer fessler.jpg|[[Ignaz Aurelius Fessler]]
File:Kutaisova Lopukhina by Rombauer.jpg|Praskovya Kutaisova, wife of
File:Vladislav Aleksandrovič Ozerov.jpg|[[Vladislav Ozerov]]
File:Józef August Iliński.jpg|Józef August Iliński
</gallery>
== References ==
==External links==
* [https://ift.tt/2UtcKmY Biography and paintings] @ ''Napoleon and Revolution'' (blog)
[[Category:1782 births]]
[[Category:1849 deaths]]
[[Category:Slovak painters]]
[[Category:Portrait painters]]
[[Category:People from Levoča]]
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