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Antonio Fabrés

1854-1938 Spain-Mexico-Italy/Neoclassicism

 

Brief Biography-Antonio Maria Fabrés y Costa was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He studied at the Llotja School, or Escuela de la Lonja, in his home city of Barcelona. In 1875, Fabrés earned a scholarship to study in Rome. He spent ten years in Italy, where he established himself as a watercolourist and collaborated with a group of realist painters led by the Catalonian artist Marià Fortuny. From 1894 to 1902, he lived in Paris, where he set up a successful studio. The President of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz, summoned him in 1903 to fill the Inspector General of Fine Arts position at the Academy of San Carlos. In 1908, he settled back in Rome, where he spent the remainder of his days. His works are in several of the world’s most prestigious museums, especially in Barcelona.

 

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a gift for the
favourite

a gift for the favourite


a thief

a thief


the slave

the slave

a young
musician

a young musician


arab sentinel

arab sentinel


bacchanal

bacchanal


genre scene

genre scene


Gloria Fabrés

Gloria Fabrés

in
the carriage

in the carriage


keeping guard

keeping guard


mauresque

mauresque


miguel hidalgo

miguel hidalgo


self portrait

self portrait


street musicians

street musicians


the carnival king

the carnival king


the sultan's gift

the sultan's gif

the young snake
charmer

the young snake charmer

young oriental
girls

young oriental girls