Old Master Paintings & Spanish Colonial Art
Oil on canvas, framed measurements: 112 x 80 cm, canvas measurements: 82 x 51 cm. Rafael Senet y Pérez (Seville, 1856-ibidem, 1926), was a Spanish painter and watercolourist known for his landscapes of Venice and other costumbrista and oriental themes. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Seville with Teodoro Aramburu, Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer and Eduardo Cano. After a brief season in Madrid, in 1880, and with the help of the banker Ramón de Ibarra, he traveled to Rome where he fell under the influence of José Villegas Cordero. In Italy he traveled painting in the south of the peninsula and in Veneto. For The Return of Fishing in Naples he was awarded a second medal at the National Fine Arts in 1884. That same year he achieved the same award at the Munich International. He was also present at the Exhibition of the Center for Watercolourists in Barcelona and at the Fifth International Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1907. Senet Pérez was linked to the group of landscape artists from Alcalá de Guadaira, led by Emilio Sánchez Perrier. A painter from Venice, many of his works are in private English collections, the vast majority of them sold by the London dealer Arthur Tooth. Reference bibliography: Valdivieso González, Enrique, The Sevillian painting of the 19th century, Seville, 1981, p. 130. the vast majority of them marketed by the London dealer Arthur Tooth. Reference bibliography: Valdivieso González, Enrique, The Sevillian painting of the 19th century, Seville, 1981, p. 130. the vast majority of them marketed by the London dealer Arthur Tooth. Reference bibliography: Valdivieso González, Enrique, The Sevillian painting of the 19th century, Seville, 1981, p. 130.
