Genoa 1639-Rome 1709  Related Paintings of Giovanni Battista Gaulli Called Baccicio :. | Portrait of Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici | Oratorio di Santa Maria Maddalena, | Painting depicting historical episode between Scipio Africanus and Allucius | bacoeariadne fcegk | Continence of Scipio |
Related Artists:
Paolo Finoglio
the Neapolitan painter 1590-1645
Eugene Alexis Girardet
French Painter, 1853-1907 painted Prayer in the Desert in
Portana, Vicente Lopez
Spanish Painter, 1772-1850 was a Spanish painter, considered the best portrait painter of his time. Vicente Lepez y Portaña was born in Valencia on September 19, 1772. His parents were Cristebal Lepez Sanchordi and Manuela Portaña Meer. Vicente Lepez began formally studying painting in Valencia at the age of thirteen, he was a disciple of father Antonio de Villanueva, a Franciscan monk, and he studied at the Academy of San Carlos in his native city. He was seventeen when he won first price 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 Lepez returned to Valencia in 1794 and subsequently became vice-director of painting at the Academy where he had studied as a boy.