Jan Kupecky (1667 - 1740)

Jan Kupecky

Jan Kupecký was a Slovak painter of the late seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century. He is considered one of the greatest portrait painters in Europe of his era. Kupecky also wrote works of historical genre and paintings-allegories.

During his career Jan Kupecky painted more than 10,000 pictures. He left behind a large number of portraits of ordinary people, his colleagues and friends, as well as influential dignitaries and European rulers, as well as dozens of self-portraits.

Numerous works by the artist are now preserved in museums throughout Europe, and the largest collection of his works is in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.