Valencia
Born on March 12, 1842,12 he began his artistic training at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in his native Valencia, having as his teacher Rafael Montesinos y Ramiro, a miniaturist and great admirer of Ribera whose painting he copied with great enthusiasm. intensity the young artist. In 1864, he moved to Madrid to continue his training at the Royal Academy of San Fernando, he was awarded the Prize of Rome in 1867, an award that pensioned the winner in this city for the culmination of his training, thus traveling in 1868 to the Eternal City. Sending his works to the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts will allow him to achieve various successes, denoting in his works the inheritance of the naturalistic tradition of the Baroque. From Rome he sent a Saint Clare who won the first medal in the National of 1871. In 1868, at only twenty-three years old, he was a professor at the Academy of San Carlos, despite being so for only one year, having as disciples the brothers José and Mariano Benlliure. Upon returning to Spain, he divided his time between Madrid and Valencia, moving to boarding houses in Paris, a city to which he would later return, but as a resident, since he maintained a second residence there. In 1875 in Paris he continued with the Fortuny business, working on small works in a meticulous and colorful style, feeling a certain influence of French Impressionism. In his mature stage he will come to dismantle the pictorial material to become especially interested in color. In 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, he returned to Madrid, settling with his son Roberto (1883-1956), also an artist; Widely known for his paintings of bullfights. Three years later, he entered the Royal Academy of San Fernando. In 1918, his work was the subject of a retrospective and tribute in his native Valencia. He also received the "Grand Cross of Alfonso XII" (now known as the "Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise"). He died in Madrid, at seventy-eight years of age.His first works, not in vain, were influenced by the sober and restricted palette of Eduardo Rosales (which is, in part, by Velázquez and Goya).
Madrid
