(b Breslau [now Wroclaw, Poland], 1717; d Vienna, 1766). Predominantly a portrait painter, he was at first in the service of the Hungarian Primate-Archbishop, Count Imre, Cardinal Esterh?zy, and then of the Bishop of Olomouc, Count Ferdinand Julio, Cardinal Troyer (d 1758), whose seat was in Brno. He then moved to Vienna, where his portraits were much sought after by the court and nobility. They include a portrait of Anton Palko, the Painter's Father (1746; Vienna, Belvedere; see fig.), a Self-portrait in a straw hat (1748; Budapest, Mus. F.A.) and another with his wife (Olomouc, priv. col.). Another very moving self-portrait only survives in a miniature copy (Salzburg, Mus. Carolino Augusteum), the original being with the lost collection of artists' self-portraits in the castle of Leopoldskron. A series of portraits painted in 1760 for Schloss Kirchstetten (Vienna, Nieder?sterreich. Landesmus.) includes a cycle of the Suttner family. Palko also painted some fine altarpieces
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