March Marco, Vicente

Valencia, Spain

He trained artistically at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in this capital, with Gonzalo Salvá and Francisco Domingo Marqués as teachers. In 1876 he competed for a place as a boarding school in Rome with the canvas Disembarkation in Valencia of Francisco I after the defeat of Pavia, coming in second place, so, encouraged by his teacher Francisco Domingo, in 1887 he moved to Rome on his own. means, having Constantino Gómez as a traveling companion. Once in Rome he settled in the Palazzo Patrizi workshops, located at 53-B Via Margutta, sharing a studio with a large group of Spanish artists, almost all of them from Valencia, among whom Poveda, Peyró, Puig Roda, Pedro Serrano, Sánchez Barbudo, Manuel Muñoz Casas, and the Benlliure brothers with whom he will form a great friendship for life, completing his artistic training at the Chigi academy. In Italy, during the summer, he spends long periods in Venice, Naples, Assisi with the Benlliures, and, above all, in Subiaco, a medieval-looking town near Anticoli Corrado, the latter's permanent residence of his good friend and companion Mariano Barbasan. Influenced by the environment of the Spanish artistic circles in Rome, he mainly cultivated the Italian costumbrista themes of the 17th and 18th centuries. Later, following a trip to Morocco and Egypt, he developed a stage with Moroccan and orientalist scenes. In 1881 he won the silver medal at the Valencian Regional Exhibition with the canvas A Visit to the Studio. From 1888 he exhibited regularly in Berlin and Munich, winning various awards. In 1893 his watercolor La Hilandera won the silver medal at the International Exhibition in Rome. In 1894 he worked on albums dedicated to Queen María Cristina and the German Emperor. In 1903, a few years after his marriage, he left Rome and took up residence in Benigánim, a town near Játiva where his brother Rafael, a pharmacist by profession, and his wife's family lived. There he continued his pictorial work until his death on March 31, 1927. Previously, the Spanish Government honored him by naming him a knight of the Order of Carlos III.

Benigánim, Valencia