Plácido Francés y Pascual (April 1834 – 12 December 1902) was a Spanish painter who specialized in portraits, historical scenes and

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Placido Frances y Pascual Cruz de Mayo en el Albaicin

He was born in

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, and began his artistic education in Valencia, but moved to Madrid in 1854 to complete his studies. He became a Professor of drawing at the "Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de Valencia" in 1861.Brief biography
@ the Museo del Prado website. Antonio Cortina Farinós was one of his best-known students. In 1862, he created decorations for the "Palacio del Marqués de Dos Aguas" in Valencia. Four years later, he painted ceiling medallions of

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with

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and cherubs for the palace's ballroom. He also worked at the palaces of the Duke of

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and the Marqués de Larios. In 1870, he relocated to Madrid, where he became one of the founders of the

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and the "Asociación de Acuarelistas de Madrid". He also became a Professor at the

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and began showing his works at the annual National Exhibition of Fine Arts, where he won medals in 1871, 1890 and 1892. His illustrations often appeared in the magazine ''Blanco y Negro''. In 1882, he was awarded the Cross of the

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.Brief biography
@ the Gravina Museum of Fine Arts. He died in

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, aged 68. Two of his children also became painters: Fernanda Francés y Arribas (1862-1939), who specialized in painting flowers, and . His cousin was the painter Emilio Sala, who was also one of his students.

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ArtNet: more works by Francés
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