Ignác Újváry was born in 1860 in Budapest and died in 1927 in Kisorosz. He studied in Budapest (professors Lotz and Benczúr) and later also in Paris and Munich. He received several awards and worked as a professor of drawing at the College of Applied Arts in Budapest. He was a member of the Society of Arts in Budapest. In 1928, a comprehensive exhibition was organised from his estate. Several of his works are a part of the collection of the Hungarian National Gallery. Ujváry was an extraordinary artist, who – just like the whole range of Hungarian genre painters from the fin-de-siecle period – explored predominantly Hungarian countryside in its characteristic genre. Today, more than this specific iconography, his work is more admired (and even traded at auctions – London) thanks to delicate and natural painting, contrast and vigorous colours. Source: Dr. Szabó Ákos András: Magyar festők és grafikusok életrajzi lexikona II. zv., Nyíregyháza 2002, s. 592.