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Manuel Rodríguez de la Parra Castellano (3 February 1823/1826 – 3 April 1880) was a Spanish
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Manuel Rodríguez de la Parra Castellano (3 February 1823/1826 – 3 April 1880) 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 and engraver in the Romantic style, known especially for his bullfight scenes. He was also a noted art collector.
Biography
He was born inMadrid
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, where he began his art studies at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
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in Madrid and later worked with Carlos Luis Ribera to decorate the ceiling of the meeting room for the Congress of Deputies
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Museo del Prado
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In 1856, he won honorable mention at the first National Exhibition of Fine Arts for his painting of the picador
A ''picador'' (; pl. ''picadores'') is one of the pair of horse-mounted bullfighters in a Spanish-style bullfight that jab the bull with a lance. They perform in the ''tercio de varas'', which is the first of the three stages in a stylized bullf ...
s preparing their horses at the old bullring in Madrid (demolished in 1874), which incorporates portraits of many of the period's most popular bullfighters, including Paquiro.@ MCN Biografías. In 1862, he won third prize at the Exhibition with his depiction of the deaths of Luis Daoíz and Pedro Velarde; again in 1866 for
Fernando Valenzuela
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in prison, and a third time in 1868 for the death of the Conde de Villamediana. In 1875, aged almost fifty, he was awarded a stipend to study in Rome and Venice. He also studied briefly in Paris.
As a collector, he acquired one of the first collections of photographs in Spain. He amassed more than 20,000 of them, from 1853 until his death in Madrid, primarily portraits and scenic vistas, most of which were arranged in albums. After his death, they passed into the collection of the Biblioteca Nacional Biblioteca Nacional (Spanish or Portuguese: ''National Library'') may refer to:
*Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, in Chile
*Biblioteca Nacional de España, in Spain
*Biblioteca Nacional del Perú, in Peru
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. His nephew sold over 6,000 engravings from his uncle's collection to the museum.
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Spanish Old Masters Gallery
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