biography
| name: |
Rodes i Àries, Vicent
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pronunciation:
[rohdes ee aries]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1791–1859)
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| biography:
| Catalan painter, born in Alicante, SE Spain. He studied at the Art School in Alicante. During the Napoleonic invasion, he earned a living drawing quick inexpensive portraits of soldiers, then settled in Barcelona (1820), where his sketching skills increased his reputation and he gained a clientele of aristocrats and members of the upper class. His portraits include Fernando VII, Generals Castaño, Concha and Sant Martí, and the Count of Spain. A number of his pieces are to be seen in private collections, in the acadèmies of Sant Carles, Sant Lluís, and Sant Jordi, and in the museums of modern art in Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia. |
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