Old Master Paintings & Spanish Colonial Art
Guillermo Gómez Gil (Málaga, 1862-Cádiz, January 6, 1942) painter belonging to the Spanish costumbrismo, specialized in seascapes. He was born in Malaga in 1862 and trained in this city, opting for art, his teacher being Emilio Ocón y Rivas, professor of Fine Arts who created a school in Malaga and left several disciples. His studies were carried out at the San Telmo Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He goes on to participate in the Barroso Prize, an award managed by the Malaga City Council, whose purpose was to motivate the students of said school. In 1881 he returned to participate in this prize, although in none of the participations he managed to win. In the year 1880 he participated in a collective exhibition organized by the Malacitano city council with the name of «Artistic, Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition», in which he participated wearing Puesta de sol and Marina. He specialized in landscapes and seascapes, for which he became famous and famous. He participated in several National Exhibitions, obtaining an award in 1892, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1915 and 1917, obtaining the recognition of a third class medal most of the time. From 1881, when he resides in Malaga, until 1892, when he appears as a participant in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid that year, there is a gap of thirty years in which his activity is unknown, so there is very little data about him. He was a professor at the School of Arts and Crafts in Seville, a city where he lived for many years, until his retirement in 1932, alternating between Seville and the city of Cádiz, where he died on January 6, 1942. Rodríguez Aguilar , Immaculate Conception. Art and culture in the press. La Pintura Sevillana (1900-1935), Secretary of Publications of the University of Seville (2000), ISBN 8447205762.
