Old Master Paintings & Spanish Colonial Art
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Framed measurements: 86 x 71 (each), canvas measurements: 71 x 55 cm. Manuel Barrón y Carrillo (Seville, 1814 – ibídem, 1884) was a Spanish painter representative of Andalusian customs. He studied with Antonio Cabral Bejarano and at the School of Fine Arts in Seville, where he would later be a teacher for the subjects of plaster drawing, perspective and landscape, and reached the position of director. Among his disciples, it is worth mentioning Rafael Romero Barros. He was also a member of the Artistic Lyceum (founded in 1838) and the Economic Society of Friends of the Country. He regularly participated in regional and national exhibitions of Fine Arts. He stood out as a romantic landscape painter of urban, rural and picturesque settings of costumbrista subject matter. The queen of Isabel II of Spain, acquired the canvas from her General view of Seville, preserved in the Palace of Riofrío in Segovia. Amongst his extensive landscape and costumbrist production we can mention Popular Festival in the outskirts of Seville (c. 1845-1850); View of the Guadalquivir (1854), View of Cádiz (1854), Crossing the Guadalquivir (1855). Reference bibliography: «Barrón y Carrillo, Manuel», in the Prado Museum Online Encyclopedia
