Spanish Rococo Era Painter, 1746-1799 was a Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period. He was born in Madrid he first trained with Antonio Gonz??lez Velazquez and attended the Academia Real de San Fernando in Madrid, where he won a second prize in a painting contest in 1760, and first prize in 1766. He entered the studio of the French painter Charles de la Traverse, who worked for the Marchese of Ossun, the ambassador of France in Spain. Unfortunately upon returning to Madrid, despite becoming a teacher in the Academia de San Fernando at age 33 years, he mainly received royal commissions to paint and engrave vistas of ports, the Spanish equivalent of vedute, and also of planned works of construction. For some years, he was banished to Puerto Rico, where he trained the painter Jose Campeche.  Related Paintings of Luis Paret y alcazar :. | The watchfulness of Diogenes | The Antique Store | Charles III Dining before the Court | Village Scene and View of Fuenterrabia | A Masked Ball |
Related Artists:
Hans Sandreuter
1850 -1901
Anton Ivanov
painted Fishing Vessels off a Jetty in 1839
Bernhard Gutmann
German (Resident in U.S) 1869-1936