Mariano Baquero (1838,

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– c.1890) was a Spanish painter; best known for his Orientalist scenes.

Biography

Essentially a

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painter, he initially studied in Madrid at the "Escuela Dependiente" of the

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. Later, he went to Paris, where he studied under the direction of

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and Paul Césaire Gariot (1811–1880).Manuel Ossorio y Bernard, ''Galería biográfica de artistas españoles del siglo XIX'', Imprenta de Moreno y Rojas, 1883-188
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/ref> Watercolors were his preferred medium. At the National Exhibition of Fine Arts of 1860 he presented one of his most familiar works; based on a scene from the romances of

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, which he called ''La Buena Ventura'' (Good Luck).

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{{Spain-painter-stub 1838 births 1890s deaths Spanish painters Spanish genre painters Spanish orientalists Spanish watercolourists People from Aranjuez