Brief Biography-Ádám Mányoki was a portraitist who studied with Adam Scheitz in Lüneburg and Nicolas de Largillière in Paris. He later moved to Hamburg and Berlin. In 1707, Prince Rákóczi (Francis II of Hungary and Transylvania) elected him court painter, and he was named court painter to Augustus the Strong in Dresden in 1713. In Vienna in 1723, he painted the Archduchess Maria-Theresa, Maria Antonia, and others of the Viennese court. After 1732, he worked in Leipzig and Dresden, where he settled for the remainder of his life. He died in a state of poverty in 1757.