Ángel Della Valle (10 October 1852,

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– 16 July 1903, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine painter in the Realistic style who belonged to the " Generation of '80".

Biography

He was born to an Italian immigrant family. His father was a construction manager, who worked on several major projects and was able to enroll Ángel at the Colegio San José, a prestigious private school."Della Valle, Ángel - apenas Un Grande"
by Carlos Raúl Risso @ Escritor Costumbrista (originally published in ''Revista de mis Pagos'', #19). He displayed an early aptitude for art and, although his father died in 1871, the following year, with the consent of his mother, he was able to go to Italy, where he studied with Antonio Ciseri in Florence.Biographical notes
@ Fundación Konex. He returned to Argentina in 1883, set up a workshop in the family home and soon became identified with a group of artists who would later become the founders of "El Ateneo", an artistic salon that also involved writers and musicians. These artists included the painters Augusto Ballerini, Eduardo Sívori, Ernesto de la Cárcova and Reinaldo Giudici, as well as the sculptors Lucio Correa Morales and Francisco Cafferata. In 1893, this group began Argentina's first regular art exhibitions. At first, he concentrated on portraits. Among the best-known are those of his childhood friend, Dr.Pedro Lagleyze (1855-1916), a prominent

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, and one of his patients, President Julio Argentino Roca."Dr. Pedro Lagleyze depicted in the visual arts"
by Dr. Ricardo Darío Wainsztein @ the Consejo Argentino de Oftalmología. Overall, however, his best works are considered to be those depicting the countryside, the

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, and scenes of daily life among the common people. In 1892, he produced what is probably his most famous painting "The Return of the Malón". The following year it was exhibited in the Argentine pavilion at the

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in Chicago. He also taught at the "Sociedad de Estímulo de Bellas Artes" (SEBA), founded in 1876 to be the nation's primary source for art instruction, remaining there as a drawing teacher for eighteen years. The school occupied the upper floors of a department store, now known as the Galerías Pacífico. Eventually, he devoted more of his time to developing young artists than he did to painting. He died suddenly, while teaching in his classroom. One of his students, , made a drawing of Valle's last moments.

References

External links

"El campo y sus personajes en la obra de Ángel Della Valle"
by Lourdes Graciela Arin @ Centro Argentina de Investigadores de Arte (CAIA)
"Los indios según Ángel Della Valle"
@ Carpetas Docentes de Historia
ArtNet: A few more works by ValleBrief biography and more paintings
@ Zurbaran {{DEFAULTSORT:Valle, Angel Della 1852 births 1903 deaths Painters from Buenos Aires Genre painters Argentine portrait painters Argentine people of Italian descent 19th-century Argentine painters 19th-century Argentine male artists Argentine male painters