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Dióscoro Puebla
Dióscoro Teófilo Puebla Tolín (25 February 1831 – 24 October 1901) was a Spanish painter in the Academic art, Eclectic style who specialized in portraits, Genre art, genre and history painting. Biography Puebla was born in Melgar de Fernamental, Spain. His first studies took place in the public schools of Carrión de los Condes, where he displayed his talent for drawing. This led to his enrollment at the new "Escuela Municipal de Dibujo de Palencia", which had been created in 1838 and ultimately produced many well-known Spanish artists, including José Casado del Alisal, Eugenio Oliva and Asterio Mañanós Martínez. In 1845, he enrolled at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid,Brief biography @ the Museo del Prado website where he studied with José de Madr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Laurent (photographer)
Jean Laurent or, in Spanish, Juan Laurent Minier (23 July 1816, Garchizy – 24 November 1886, Madrid) was a French photographer who mostly worked in Spain. Biography Laurent first moved to Spain in 1843, and settled in Madrid. Until 1855, he worked as a box and paper maker, creating luxurious boxes for pastries and marbled paper for book bindings. That year, he became interested in photography from having done work coloring photographs. The following year, he was able to open a studio on the Carrera de San Jerónimo, near the Congress of Deputies (Spain), Congress of Deputies, the same location where the British photographer, Charles Clifford (photographer), Charles Clifford, had set up his first studio. In 1866, together with the Spanish photographer , he patented which produced positives, rather than the Negative (photography), negatives produced by the albumen print process. The paper enjoyed some popularity in Spain and France, but was never widely used. Laurent could ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
