Manuel Rodriguez de Guzman

Background

Manuel Rodriguez de Guzman was born on June 20, 1818 in Seville, Spain.

Education

Manuel Rodriguez de Guzman began painting in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría in his hometown with José Domínguez Becquer.

Career

In 1854 Manuel Rodriguez de Guzman was working for the English ambassador in Madrid, arriving to make some orders for the court within the Andalusian circle of Antonio Maria Esquivel and Jose Gutierrez de la Vega.

He also received a commission from Queen Isabel II: to paint the most important festivals and celebrations in the country; the work which could not be concluded by Rodriguez de Guzman in his scarce fifty years of life.

In 1855, Rodriguez de Guzman was among the painters sent to the Paris exhibition.

He died in 1867, at the age of 48, in Madrid, Spain.

Achievements

• Manuel Rodriguez de Guzman was an outstanding painter who excelled in the composition of the kostumbrism themes. Among his most representative paintings can be cited popular Andalusian scenes, such as "Santiponce Fair" (1855, Museo del Prado), considered his masterpiece, "Rocio Procession" (1853), "Seville Fair" (1855), "Boleras del beso" (Museum of Fine Arts of Seville) and "Country Dance in the Virgin of the Port" (1856).
  
  In 1856 Rodriguez de Guzman obtained honorable mention in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts for a canvas inspired by the novel Cervantina "Rinconete y Cortadillo".

Works

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  • The Picador

  • Derribo del picador

  • Suerte de varas

  • Juerga flamenca en la feria

  • La romería de la Virgen del Puerto

  • Lady of Sevilla

  • Suerte de recibir

  • Rinconcete y Cortadillo

  • La feria de Santiponce

  • Majo

  • Lady of Sevilla

Connections

Friend:

Leonardo Alenza

Friend:

Eugenio Lucas

teacher:

José Domínguez Becquer

References

• Manuel Rodríguez de Guzmán (Arte hispalense)