Ángel María Cortellini Hernández (1819 – 1887) was a Spanish painter. He received the gold medal of the National Exhibition for his painting, ''Retrato de señora''.

Life

Ángel María Cortellini Hernández was born in

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in 1819. He was the son of an Italian from the

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region who had married a woman of Cadiz. He trained in drawing at an early age before becoming a pupil of

Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer (25 September 1817, Seville 26 July 1879, Seville) was a Spanish Costumbrista painter. Biography His family was originally from the Spanish Netherlands, and their name was "Becker". He studied in his hometown at t ...

. At the age of 17, he traveled to Italy, stopping in

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, and

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. After two years, he returned to Seville to continue his training, which continued at the Seville Royal Academy of Fine Arts. In 1847, he moved to

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, settling there permanently. The following year, he exhibited at the

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF; ), located on the Calle de Alcalá in the centre of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal aca ...

and the Liceo Artístico y Literario. After receiving an appointment in 1850 as the honorary court painter, he created portraits of Queen Isabel II and her husband Francisco de Asis de Bourbon.

Awards

In 1866, he received the gold medal of the National Exhibition for ''Retrato de señora'', and a similar award in 1871 for ''La batalla de Wad-Ras''. He died in

in 1887.

Gallery

File:El infante Francisco de Paula de Borbón (Museo del Romanticismo de Madrid).JPG, ''Portrait of Francisco de Paula de Borbón'' Ángel María Cortellini Leaving the Bullring.jpg, ''Leaving the bullring'' Ángel María Cortellini No more Wine.jpg, ''No more wine'' File:Angel María Cortellini - Basilio de Chávarri - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Portrait of Basilio de Chávarri''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cortellini Hernandez, Angel Maria 1819 births 1887 deaths People from Sanlúcar de Barrameda 19th-century Spanish painters 19th-century Spanish male artists