Loading...
A pupil of Houasse in Madrid between 1726–30, he travelled at his own expense to Paris, Rome and Naples where he completed his education. Upon his return in 1737, he became acquainted with the court milieu, worked for the Palace, and was a member of the Preparatory Board for the foundation of the Royal Academy of Noble Arts beginning in 1744. He married a daughter of the engraver Juan Bernabé Palo
He belongs to a generation of painters straddling the Spanish Baroque tradition and the influence of the French and Italian masters that Philip V brought to the Madrid court. He received training with his uncle Juan García de Miranda and entered the palace as his assistant in 1734 to restore the paintings in the royal collection. He excelled in this work to such extent that he was appointed painte
This German painter and treatise-writer was the most outstanding proponent of early neoclassicism. He began art studies in Dresden under the severe supervision of his father, Ismael Mengs, a painter at the court of Saxony. Between 1741 and 1744, he lived with his father and brothers in Rome, where he was able to study classical Antiquity and the works of Michelangelo and Raphael at the Vatican. Du
He studied in Madrid with Jerónimo Antonio Ezquerra and Miguel Jacinto Meléndez, and according to Ceán, his first work consisted of two paintings based on drawings by Meléndez for the church of San Felipe el Real in Madrid: “Saint Augustine Calling Up a Plague of Locusts” and “The Burial of the Count of Orgaz”. A protege of the Prince of Asturias and future King Ferdinand VI, he was appointed cham
Pintor, diseñador y dibujante español, hermano menor de Francisco y del cartujo Manuel, recibió las primeras enseñanzas pictóricas en los talleres de Juan Andrés Merklein y José Luzán Martínez. En 1764 se trasladó a Madrid, donde ingresó en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, donde recibió el primer premio de pintura. Desde 1765 colaboró con Anton Raphael Mengs en la elaboración de l