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Manuel García y Rodríguez (Seville, 1863 - May 6, 1925)
Description
Measurements Height 45cm x Width 36cm
He went through the seminary and the provincial institute, where he obtained a bachelors degree, and received his first painting lessons from José de la Vega Marrugal and his brothers Pedro and Francisco, belonging to a family of Sevillian artists, of traditional and romantic painting , but with a meticulous and descriptive realism, and linked to the newly created Free Academy of Fine Arts in Seville.
Later he studied at the Seville School of Fine Arts, where he was a disciple of Eduardo Cano and Manuel Wssel de Guimbarda, and connected with other young Sevillian artists such as Sánchez Perrier, Fernando Tirado, Virgilio Mattoni, José Arpa or Rico Cejudo.1 A throughout his life he participated on several occasions in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts (Spain), obtaining in 1887 a bronze medal with the work The shores of the Guadalquivir2 and in the years 1890 and 1895 the second medal.
His painting was directed to the landscape and customs scenes that he practiced almost exclusively throughout his career. Interested in this pictorial genre, he traveled to Madrid, where he came into contact with the pleinairist circle of Professor Carlos de Haes, although he dedicated most of his pictorial work in Seville, the Guadalquivir and its surroundings, actively participating in the neighboring landscape school. town of Alcalá de Guadaíra. He collaborated as an illustrator for the weekly Blanco y Negro.
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