Old Master Paintings & Spanish Colonial Art
Oil on canvas, canvas measures: 105 x 82 cm. (Alcázar de San Juan, Ciudad Real, 1846-Leganés, Madrid, 1929). Spanish painter. At the age of fourteen he began his studies at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, where he was a disciple of Francisco Mendoza. During his apprenticeship, he visited the Prado Museum on numerous occasions to make copies of the great masters. In 1869 he was pensioned by the Marquis of Bedmar to complete his training in Italy. He toured Spanish cities taking notes from nature and painting landscapes and costumbrista scenes, specializing in scenes of majos and bullfighters. He cultivated, to a lesser extent, the historical genre to compete in the National Exhibitions, in which he obtained third medal in 1876 and 1878, and second, in the 1881 and 1887 editions. He participated in the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1878. He was the author of more than 800 drawings intended for illustration in books and magazines, he collaborated in The National Episodes, by Benito Pérez Galdós, and in the farces and comedies of Ricardo de la Vega, Vital Aza and Ramos Carrión. In 1929 he entered the Leganés asylum, where he would die shortly after. Reference bibliography: Núñez de San Juan, E., «Ángel Lizcano, painter from Madrid», El Heraldo de Madrid, August 10, 1929.
