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Liner Lieutenant Miklós von Horthy 1917
Half-length portrait en face, upper part of the body slightly turned sideways, looking directly at the viewer. In navy uniform, without cap, with chest decorated with orders and a medal in the form of a black paw cross. Background formed only by colored, textured area, forming a roughly oval portrait.
JQAW# P_1917_060
Oil on canvas, dimensions unknown.
Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams 1917
Lost (1945 war loss Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna)
Image source: B/W reproduction from book publication
Miklós Horthy (Knight Nikolaus Horthy of Nagybánya) (18.6.1868 Kenderes to 9.2.1957 Estoril), k.u.k. Naval officer, admiral, and later imperial administrator (1920-1944) of Hungary. For his biography, see his detailed Wikipedia entry.
Born of Hungarian minor nobility, Horthy graduated from the Naval Academy in Fiume and went through a classic officer's career from 1886 onwards. In 1909-1914 he was wing adjutant to Emperor Franz-Josef I. He returned to active naval service at the outbreak of World War I. At the time of the 1917 Adams portrait, he was a liner lieutenant and captain of the S.M.S. Novara (catalog of the 1917 Adams exhibition), later promoted to admiral and, from February 1918, commander of the k.u.k. Navy. After the w
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Horthy, Miklós (1868–1957)
Hungarian statesman.
Regent of Hungary during the turbulent period from 1920 until his arrest by the Nazis in 1944, Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya was born into a noble Protestant family in 1868. As a young man he served in the Austro-Hungarian navy, quickly ascending the ranks to become one of the navy's most valued officers. For most of World War I he served as captain of the Novara and the Prinz Eugen, and he was named vice admiral and made commander of the fleet in 1918.
When the postwar treaties left Hungary without access to the sea, Horthy retired to his family's estate in Kenderes, but in May 1919 he was drawn into the counterrevolutionary cabinet of Count Gyula Károlyi (1875–1955). The new government set out to replace the Republic of Soviets that had seized power a few months earlier, and as the only available high-ranking officer who had not taken an office during the revolution, Horthy was made Minister of War. As commander-in-chief of the minuscule National Army in Szeged, he—along with some of his fellow National Army officers—came to embody the so-called Szeged Idea, which was counterrevolutionary, right-leaning, and militant but also emphasized continuity and enjoyed the support of, among others, conservative aristocr
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(1868–1957)
Hungarian naval officer who became head of tide after Sphere War I.
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