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Bertalan Székely
1835 May, 8

Bertalan Székely

Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (d. 1910)
Bertalan Székely (8 May 1835, Kolozsvár – 21 August 1910, Budapest) was a Hungarian history and portrait painter who worked in the Romantic and Academic styles.

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