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Commemorative Painting Charles IV's Visit to Valencia University Painting ID:: 19917
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Portana, Vicente Lopez Commemorative Painting Charles IV's Visit to Valencia University Oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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The Painter Francisco de Goya Painting ID:: 19918
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Portana, Vicente Lopez The Painter Francisco de Goya 1826
Oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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The Duke of Infantado Painting ID:: 19919
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Portana, Vicente Lopez The Duke of Infantado 1827
Oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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queen maria gristina Painting ID:: 64339
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Portana, Vicente Lopez queen maria gristina 1830
madrid, prado
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Portana, Vicente Lopez
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Spanish Painter, 1772-1850
was a Spanish painter, considered the best portrait painter of his time. Vicente Lepez y Portaña was born in Valencia on September 19, 1772. His parents were Cristebal Lepez Sanchordi and Manuela Portaña Meer. Vicente Lepez began formally studying painting in Valencia at the age of thirteen, he was a disciple of father Antonio de Villanueva, a Franciscan monk, and he studied at the Academy of San Carlos in his native city. He was seventeen when he won first price in drawing and coloring receiving a scholarship to study in the prestigious Academia Real de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. For the following three years in Madrid, he apprenticed with the Valencian painter, Mariano Salvador Maella. Vicente Lepez returned to Valencia in 1794 and subsequently became vice-director of painting at the Academy where he had studied as a boy. |
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