Luis Paret y Alcazar
(1746 - 1799) |
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genre paintings called bambochadas Art Work
| Name: |
Luis Paret y Alcazar |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality: |
Spanish |
| Birth: |
1746 |
| Death: |
1799 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
genre paintings called bambochadas |
| Medium: |
Oil on canvas |
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| Style: |
Rococo |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painting
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Biography
| Luis Paret y Alcazar was a Spanish painter and one of Goya's contemporaries. A lifelong adherent to the Rococo syle, in which he had been traind at the Academy, earned him the epithet 'the Spanish Watteau' (Antoine Watteau was a French Rococo painter in the early 1700s) for his elegant genre scenes of court life. Between 1763 and 1766, Luis found patronage under the king's brother Don Luis de Borbon. He was exiled to Puerto Rico after being accused of aiding Don Luis's promiscuous endeavors. There he become the leading artist and established a local school of painting. In 1779, the artist was permitted to return to Spain as long as he remained 40 leagues from the court of Madrid. He settled in Bilbao where he executed his celebrated series of views of Cantabrian ports. These pictures, inspired by a similar group of French ports commissioned by Louis XV from Claude-Joseph Vernet, earned Paret the additional sobriquet of 'the Spanish Vernet'. |
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