Vicente López Portaña OIC ( Spanish: [ b i ˈ θ e n t e ˈ l o p e θ p o ɾ ˈ t a ɲ a ] ; 19 September 1772 – 22 July 1850) was a Spanish painter, considered one of the best portrait painters of his time.
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24-781: Is considered the best Spanish painter of his time, second only to Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes . One of his rivals was Agustín Esteve Marqués . López's style is dominated by the influence of Anton Raphael Mengs and the Academicism, and he was unaffected by the romanticism popular at the end of his career. López was very skilled in drawing and using the brush, but he did not achieve the level of genius of Goya. His best works are probably his drawings and small-scale paintings. Vicente López by E. M Aguilera [REDACTED] Media related to Vicente López y Portaña at Wikimedia Commons Bernardo L%C3%B3pez Piquer Bernardo López Piquer (20 August 1799, Valencia – 1 August 1874, Madrid )
36-503: Is on Wikidata Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Vicente L%C3%B3pez Porta%C3%B1a Vicente López Portaña was born in Valencia on 19 September 1772. His parents were Cristóbal López Sanchordi and Manuela Portaña Miró. Vicente López began formally studying painting in Valencia at the age of thirteen, he
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60-510: The Academy where he had studied as a boy. In 1795 he married Maria Piquer, they had two sons: Bernardo and Luis , who were also painters, following their father's style but with little accomplishments. In 1801 López was named President of the Academy of San Carlos. When king Charles IV visited the city of Turia in 1802, the king appointed him an honorary court painter at the same time he gave him some commissions that he executed successfully. He
72-513: The court from Bordeaux , where the Aragonese painter was then living. Goya was then 80 and would die two years later. It was said that Goya got bored posing for his colleague who was very meticulous and a stickler for detail, and that for this reason the portrait is inferior to others by López. However, for this precise reason, and because of the strong personality of the model this is one of López's most lively and best-known works. Vicente López spent
84-601: The remainder of his life in Madrid painting portraits of statesmen, academics, and other important figures, as well as dramatic and emotional religious subjects. When he died, in Madrid, he was court painter of Queen Isabella II . He was seventy eight years old. Vicente López was a Neoclassicist painter but he retained certain traces of the Rococo style. He had the Neoclassical emphasis on masterly drawing, though with less rigidity. López
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108-593: Was a Spanish portrait painter; noted especially for his pastels. His father was the portrait painter, Vicente López Portaña . His brother, Luis , also became a painter. Later, they would work together at Orihuela Cathedral . He and his brother enrolled at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1825. Thanks to the influence of his father, he was able to find work at the Royal Palace , where he painted portraits in his father's style. After 1844, he held
120-669: Was a disciple of father Antonio de Villanueva, a Franciscan friar , and he studied at the Academy of San Carlos in his native city. He was seventeen when he won first prize 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 López returned to Valencia in 1794 and subsequently became vice-director of painting at
132-504: Was already well known and regarded when in 1814 López was called to the court of Ferdinand VII, the Spanish king, who appointed him official court painter and received a royal appointment. Shortly thereafter he succeeded Goya as Royal Court Painter during the reign of Ferdinand VII , who also appointed him as drawing teacher of his second wife, Maria Isabella of Portugal , and later of his third wife, Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony . In 1817 he
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#1732863137685144-462: Was named President of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando . Vicente López was a prolific painter executing many religious, allegorical, historic and mythological scenes, but he specialized in portraits. During his long career he painted nearly every notable person in Spain during the first half of the 1800s. In 1826, López painted a portrait of Francisco Goya when the famous master visited
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