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| Vicente García de Paredes (1845–1903) | ||||||||||
| A Spanish-style painter of historical, genre, portrait, and urban scenes, García de Paredes was born in Valencia. He began his artistic education at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia, before moving to Madrid, where he worked for the Museo del Prado as a copyist. He won a bronze medal at the Exposición de Bellas Artes in Valencia, and later received a scholarship to study in Rome. There, he was influenced by Orientalist painters such as Mariano Fortuny, Ignacio Pinazo, Juan Peyró, and José Benlliure, completing several works in the Orientalist style, including An Arab Blacksmith. He exhibited at the Exposition de Valence in 1879, and around 1884 he moved to Paris, where he abandoned Orientalism and embraced the genre of ‘casacas’ for which he is best known—French 18th-century-style interior scenes depicting the nobility in elegant surroundings. These works were executed with fine detail and pastel tones, and many appeared in European publications, including Le Monde, which brought him widespread popularity. García de Paredes was regarded as one of the greatest watercolourists of the 19th-century Spanish school. His watercolours were exhibited at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and at the Society of French Watercolourists in Paris. After his death, his paintings fell out of fashion and into relative obscurity. He died in Paris. | ||||||||||
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