Martin Rico y Ortega, (Spanish, 1833-1908)
Venetian Canal on a Sunny Afternoon
Oil on canvas
29 ¾ x 19 7/8 in. (75.6 x 50.5 cm.)
Private collection
Martín Rico y Ortega (12 November 1833, El Escorial –
13 April 1908, Venice, Italy) was a Spanish painter of landscapes
and cityscapes. Rico was one of the most important artists of the second half
of the nineteenth century in his native country, and enjoyed wide international
recognition.
Rico was
born in Madrid and received his earliest formal training at the city’s Real
Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, where he studied under Jenaro Pérez
Villaamil. In 1860, having been awarded a government-sponsored scholarship,
Rico moved to Paris to continue his studies.
His
landscapes depict the French and Swiss countryside in a fully accomplished
Realist style. Toward the end of 1870, due to political and social unrest
caused by the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, Rico decided to leave France
and return to his native Spain.
Rico moved to the southern city of Granada, joining Fortuny
and his wife Cecilia, as well as the painter Ricardo de Madrazo. The three
artists worked closely during this period, with the styles of Rico and Fortuny
overlapping so much that their watercolors—a specialty for both artists—were
often confused for one another. It was during this time that, through Fortuny’s
influence, Rico’s paintings began to reveal a newfound sense of luminosity and
color. His time in Andalucía was, according to his memoirs, one of his
happiest, and also one of his most artistically productive periods. More on Martín Rico
y Ortega
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