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Domingo Valdivieso y Henarejos (30 August 1830 – 22 November 1872) was a Spanish painter and engraver in the
@ the Región de Murcia. He began his education in his home town, but later moved to
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Domingo Valdivieso y Henarejos (30 August 1830 – 22 November 1872) was a Spanish painter and engraver in the Academic
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style.
Biography
Valdivieso was born inMazarrón
Mazarrón is a municipality in the autonomous community and province of Murcia, southeastern Spain. The municipality has an area of , and a population of 31,562 inhabitants in 2019. A military fort (named C1 or ''Castillitos''-small castles) bui ...
, where his father was an officer in the Spanish Army.Brief biography@ the Región de Murcia. He began his education in his home town, but later moved to
Murcia
Murcia (, , ) is a city in south-eastern Spain, the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia, and the seventh largest city in the country. It has a population of 460,349 inhabitants in 2021 (about one ...
to pursue his secondary studies. While there, he displayed a notable talent for drawing, so his counselors advised him to pursue artistic studies as well. His first teacher was a local artist named Juan Albacete. At eighteen, he moved to Madrid to work for the government, but also attended the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF; ), located on the Calle de Alcalá in the heart of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal acad ...
in his spare time.Brief biography@ 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 ...
.
By 1853, he had firmly decided on a career as a painter and quit his position. He also began to do lithography
Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...
, providing illustrations for ''General Staff of the Spanish Army'' by and ''History of the Royal Spanish Navy'' by José Ferrer de Couto and . In 1861, he received a grant from the Diputación de Murcia to complete his studies in Paris and Rome, where he came under the influence of Eduardo Rosales
Eduardo Rosales Gallinas (4 November 1836 – 13 September 1873) was a Spanish painter. He was an adherent of the Italian-based art movement known as " Purismo" and specialized in historical scenes.
Biography
He was born in Madrid. The second ...
and the Nazarene movement
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.
From there, he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, winning medals in 1862, 1864 and 1866, the year he became a Professor of anatomical painting at the San Fernando Academy. In 1871, he was awarded another medal at the Exhibition.
His best-known works deal with religious subjects, although he also created historical scenes, portraits, mythological scenes and 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 ...
works; depicting Italy and Murcia. The largest collection of his paintings is at the (MUBAM).
He died in Madrid
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, aged only forty-two, from a cerebral inflammation.
References
Further reading
*Juan Antonio López Delgado, ''Domingo Valdivieso, pintor'', Author-editor, 2009External links
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