Alcalá De Guadaira School
The Alcalá de Guadaira school refers to the circle of painters, initially brought together by Manuel Ussel de Guimbarda, but which revolved around Emilio Sanchez Perrier after approximately 1890. The group assembled and painted en plein air on the banks of the Guadaíra (river), Guadaíra, near Seville. Landscape art by school Spanish art {{art-movement-stub ...
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Manuel Ussel De Guimbarda
Manuel Ussel de Guimbarda y Malibrán (26 November 1833 – 9 May 1907) was a Spanish painter. Ussel is generally seen as "Wssel"; the way he spelled it when signing his works. Biography He was born in Cuba, where his father, a career military officer, was stationed. After the deaths of his mother and brother in 1841, his father took him back to Spain and began a new posting in San Fernando, Cádiz, San Fernando. In 1843, he travelled to Madrid with his father and a servant and was enrolled at the Royal Academy of San Fernando, where he studied with Leonardo Alenza.Brief biography
@ the Región de Murcia website. Despite this, Ussel decided to follow in his family's footsteps and became a Lieutenant in 1854. A year later, he painted his first canvas, inspired by the Battle of Lepanto.
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