Jakob Bogdány (c. 1658–1724)

• Was a Hungarian and British artist.
• Bogdani was born in the city of Eperjes, today Prešov, Slovakia.
• He was a son of painter Lucas Bogdani.
• In 1684 he went to Amsterdam where he lived and worked until moving to London in 1688.
• In Amsterdam he got acquainted with fellow Hungarian letter cutter and typographer Miklós Tótfalusi Kis.

• In London he found success as a specialist still life and bird painter at the court of Queen Anne.

• One of his chief patrons was Admiral George Churchill, brother of the Duke of Marlborough, whose famous aviary at Windsor Park may have supplied subjects for some of his paintings.

• Bogdani married Elizabeth Hemmings with whom he had two children.

• He died in Finchley, north London.

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