death_date death_place birth_place name birth_date image article_title birth_name
december 3 , 1939 new york budapest artúr lajos halmi 1866 halmi self-portrait 1913.jpg artúr lajos halmi
 artúr lajos halmi
artúr lajos halmi

artúr lajos halmi -lrb- 1866 -- december 3 , 1939 -rrb- was a hungarian painter who has several works on display in the hungarian national gallery .
a student of mihály munkácsy , he internationally famed for his portraits .
his portraits of opera singers led a 1979 history of the metropolitan opera house to note that `` what van dyck was to the stuart kings , artur halmi was to the sopranos of the first third of this century .
he was the prima donna 's best friend '' .
he received medals for his artwork in antwerp , budapest and paris .
