Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes (21 July 1835 – 3 May 1885) was a Spanish

costumbrista ''Costumbrismo'' (sometimes anglicized as costumbrism, with the adjectival form costumbrist) is the literary or pictorial interpretation of local everyday life, mannerisms, and customs, primarily in the Hispanic scene, and particularly in the 19t ...

painter. He is considered to be one of the founders of the "".

Biography

He was born in

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, the son of a fisherman in the port district known as "

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". His artistic education began at the

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia (Spanish for ''Saint Charles Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Valencia'') has been a Spanish Art school in Valencia since 1768. History The institution is deemed to be the follow-on instit ...

with Francisco Martínez Yago.Brief biography
@ the Museo del Prado. He later spent some time at the

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with

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and showed an early preference for

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scenes from everyday life. His painting, " The Viaticum", which portrayed a dying beggar, won him a stipend from the which enabled him to continue his studies abroad.Brief biography
@ the

Carmen Thyssen Museum The Carmen Thyssen Museum (Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga) is an art museum in the Spanish city Málaga. The main focus of the museum is 19th-century Spanish painting, predominantly Andalusian, based on the collection of Carmen Cervera, fifth wife ...

. In 1859, he went to Paris, where he took classes at the

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and exhibited at the Salon. He would make Paris his home base until 1868. He travelled throughout North Africa and Italy and participated in numerous expositions, obtaining honorable mention at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1860. He was awarded second place there in 1864 and a silver medal in 1866. In 1868, he was married and went to Málaga, where he had been given the Chair of Color and Composition at the , despite some strong opposition. Ten years later, he was named the school's Director. Among his notable students there were

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and

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. Because of his Republican sympathies, he was forced to leave Spain during the

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and live in Rome until 1876. His works are widely dispersed throughout Western Europe, although thirteen paintings are preserved at the

Museo de Málaga The Museo de Málaga is a museum in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain. Formed in 1973, it brought together the former Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes (''Provincial Museum of Fine Arts''), born in 1913, and Museo Arqueológico Provincial (''Provincial Arch ...

. One of his best known canvases portrays a meeting of the

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shortly after its creation. It was bought by

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and is currently on display at the

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is the fine arts museum of the city of Bordeaux, France. The museum is housed in a dependency of the Palais Rohan in central Bordeaux. Its collections include paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 15t ...

. In addition to his paintings, he decorated the ceiling at the . He died, aged 59, in Málaga. A monument to him has been installed in the . It was designed by the sculptor Agapit Vallmitjana, who died before its dedication in 1913.

Selected paintings

Ferrandiz-Windbag.jpg, The Political Windbag File:Tribunal de les Aigües Valencia.JPG, Tribunal of the Waters File:Bernardo Ferrándiz The Priest.jpg, The Priest

References

External links

ArtNet: More works by Ferrándiz.Drawings by Ferrándiz
@ the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrandiz Badenes, Bernardo Painters from the Valencian Community Spanish academics 1835 births 1885 deaths 19th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish genre painters Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando alumni 19th-century Spanish male artists

Biography

Selected paintings

References

Further reading

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