Background
Bogdani was born in Eperjes, then in Sáros County in the north of the Kingdom of Hungary, but now the city of Prešov in Slovakia.
Bogdani was born in Eperjes, then in Sáros County in the north of the Kingdom of Hungary, but now the city of Prešov in Slovakia.
In 1684 he went to Amsterdam where he lived and worked until moving to London in 1688. There he found success as a specialist still life and bird painter at the court of Queen Anne, and several of his paintings became part of the Royal Collection. One of his chief patrons was Admiral George Churchill, brother of the Duke of Marlborough, whose famous aviary at Windsor Park may have supplied subjects for some of his paintings.
Bogdani married Elizabeth Hemmings with whom he had two children, William, who became a prominent British civil servant, and Elizabeth, who married the painter Tobias Stranover.
He influenced the bird painter Marmaduke Cradock. He died in Finchley, London.