Alexandre-Mathieu Sureda Chappron (1815, Palma de Mallorca - 1889, MadridSazatornil Ruiz, Luis y Frédéric Jiméno (2014)
''El arte español entre Roma y París (siglos XVIII y XIX): Intercambios artísticos y circulación de modelos'', pp. 108-12. Casa de Velázquez.
- Google Books. Accessed 1 July 2015.) was a Spanish architect. He worked under the name Alejandro Sureda and is considered "the main populariser of French architectural models amongst the Spanish aristocracy".

Life

He was the son of

Bartolomé Sureda y Miserol Bartolomé Sureda y Miserol (1769–1851) was a Spanish manager of several royal artistic enterprises. He served as director of the Real Fábrica del Buen Retiro and later the successor Royal Factory of La Moncloa, both making porcelain in Madrid, ...

(1769–1850) and his French wife Thérèse Louise de Sureda. He studied in the Paris studio of Henri Labrouste between 1836 and 1840. After his return to Spain, he was made an architect by the Academia de San Fernando in 1850. From 1851 to 1868 he held the post of deputy royal architect, only losing his post upon the

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. Between 1871 and 1873, he was involved in the works on the Teatro Apolo in Madrid, and between 1874 and 1884 he was chief architect in the redesign of the

Museo del Prado The Prado Museum ( ; ), officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It is widely considered to house one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the ...

, improving the interior and subdividing the Flemish and Spanish rooms.Prado site - biography of Sureda.
Accessed 1 July 2015. Between 1857 and 1872 he led the restoration of the Castle of Belmonte, Cuenca by Empress

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. This is the first example of restoration according to

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's criteria in Spain. In 1883 he began construction of a palace for the

Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, 17th Marquess of Cerralbo (1845 – 1922), was a Spanish archaeologist and a Carlist politician. Family and youth Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa came from the aristocratic family for centuries residing in the Salamanc ...

, marqués de Cerralbo, with later additions such as the belvedere-pavilion in 1891 designed by Luis Cabello Asó and his son

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. Better known as the

museo Cerralbo The Cerralbo Museum (Spanish: ''Museo Cerralbo'') is a State-owned museum located in Madrid, Spain. It houses the art and historical object collections of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, Marquis of Cerralbo, who died in 1922. History Enrique de A ...

, it was declared a Monumento Histórico Artístico in 1962.Arquitectura de los Museos Estatales: «Palacio del marqués de Cerralbo.»

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. Accessed 1 July 2015.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sureda, Alejandro 19th-century Spanish architects 1815 births 1889 deaths