Károly Ferenczy's Reading Paintings

I recently became familiar with Károly Ferenczy (1862 -1917) during one of my spontaneous online meanderings through the landscape of Magyar art. As I explored Ferenczy's work, I noticed a motif running through some of his paintings - specifically, men in straw hats reading. 

Man Sitting On a Log - 1895

October - 1903

Morning Sunshine - 1905

Red Wall - 1910

I read somewhere that these four paintings are all essentially self-portraits - that the straw wearing man is Ferenczy himself. Whatever the case, I find the last painting, Red Wall, the most appealing because the scene is so quintessentially Magyar, a quintessence Ferenczy captures perfectly in the composition.