Luis Paret y Alcázar (11 February 1746 – 14 February 1799) was a Spanish painter of the late-

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period.

Biography

He was born in

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and was first trained with

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and attended the Academia Real de San Fernando in Madrid, where he won a second prize in a painting contest in 1760, and first prize in 1766. He entered the studio of the French painter Charles de la Traverse, who worked for Pierre Paul d'Ossun, the ambassador of France in Spain. Unfortunately upon returning to Madrid, despite becoming a teacher in the Academia de San Fernando at age 33 years, he mainly received royal commissions to paint and engrave vistas of ports, the Spanish equivalent of

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, and also of planned works of construction. For some years, he was banished to

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, where he trained the painter Jose Campeche. He also painted flowers in

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and

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called ''bambochadas'' for their focus on the customs of the underclasses.

Gallery

Luis Paret y Alcázar - The Shop - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Shop of anticuarian Geniani'' (1772)
Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Castres) Paret y Alcazar Luis - La Lettre - Musée Goya.jpg, ''La carta'' (1772)

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Luis Paret y Alcázar - La Puerta del Sol en Madrid.jpg, ''The Puerta del Sol in Madrid'' (1773)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba Carlos III comiendo ante su corte.jpg, ''
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Dining before the Court'' (c. 1775)
Museo del Prado Luis Paret - Circunspección de Diógenes - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Circumspection of
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'' (1780)
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando Luis Paret - View of El Arenal in Bilbao - Google Art Project.jpg, ''View of El Arenal in
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'' (1783-84)
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como Príncipe de Asturias'' (1791)
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