Soma Orlai Petrich, aka Soma Orlay Petrich (October 22, 1822, Mezőberény – June 5, 1880, Budapest) was a Hungarian painter, born to a Serbian dad and Hungarian mother.
Originally aspiring to become a writer, Orlai Petrich was a pupil of Jakab Marastoni in 1846. He attended Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller’s college in Vienna start in 1847. He often painted historical themes and in his lithographs he portrayed experiences during the exploit of independence. He studied under Kaulbach in Munich from 1850. He painted “The Corpse of Louis II” in 1851, a decade since Bertalan Székely’s painting upon the thesame theme. He was next a popular portraitist.
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