Martín Rico was one of the leading Spanish landscape painters of the second half of the nineteenth-century. He was particularly interested in depicting tranquil stretches of water, and during h [+]
This work was painted at a very important moment in Rico’s career, a period spent in direct contact with Fortuny in Granada in 1871 and 1872. He move there towards the end of 1870, but he was already [+]
Rico moved to Andalusia in 1870 and worked alongside his friend Mariano Fortuny. While in Seville he painted views of the area around the Guadaira river, dotted with market gardens and orange trees. R [+]