Old Master Paintings & Spanish Colonial Art
Lote 255:
Oil on canvas, framed measurements: 85 x 74 cm, canvas measurements: 67 x 55 cm (each). Born in Jerez de la Frontera, a disciple of the School of Seville and later of the Higher School of Madrid, from 1874 he attended the Open Exhibition in the former Platería de Martínez with many of his works; In the same year he was awarded for a drawing of his in the contest opened by the newspaper La Illustration. In the National Exhibition of 1876 he presented two types of bullfighters, two landscapes of Torrelodones and a composition painting The Return to the Home. The Cadiz Exhibition of 1879 brought his painting A dance inside a harem, for which he was awarded a gold medal. In the same year he brought to the Paris salon the portrait of a lady and another of an old man.
