Celestino Martínez
Celestino Martínez Sánchez (19 May 1820, Caracas - 23 December 1885, Caracas) was a Venezuelan painter, lithographer, illustrator and photographer. He also spent part of his career working in Colombia. Biography His father, Juan José Dionisio Martínez Alemán (1773-1847), was Secretary to the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela. He began his education in art with Juan Lovera in 1832. Later, he visited Europe, spending most of his time in Paris, where he studied the "Old Masters". In 1839, at the age of nineteen, he taught drawing classes at the "Sociedad Económica Amigos del País" (Economic Society of Friends of the Nation), founded by General José Antonio Páez. These courses lasted for less than a year, but he was able to become an instructor at the new "Escuela de Dibujo" (School of Drawing) He taught at several other institutions as well. Martín Tovar y Tovar was one of his most notable students. In 1844, he and his younger brother, , were employed in the lithog ...
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