CLICK ON THUMBNAIL FOR LARGER IMAGEThe image size of this print is 24 x 18 with ample margins.
COURTYARD IN VENICE. Martin Rico.
Martin Rico y Ortega
Spanish, 1833-1908
Rico was born in El Escorial, Madrid. His formal education was completed at the San Fernando School in Madrid. Soon after graduating, he took to painting out of doors and traveled widely throughout Spain. He won a government scholarship to study in Paris, where he came under the influence of Daubigny and the Barbizon School. In 1870, at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war, he returned to Spain. In 1872, accompanied by Mariano Fortuny, he toured Italy, where he above-all impressed by the splendor of Venice, whose sites and light he captured in innumerable paintings. From 1879, by which time he had made Paris his permanent home, he spent his summers in Venice, renting a palazzo in which to paint. He would often work sitting in a gondola, sketching buildings and bridges as seen from the water.
In 1878, the art critic Paul Lefort wrote of Rico in La Gazette des Beaux-Arts:"Although a fanatic when it comes to light, and an aficionado of rare and augmented color tonalities which, in his works, resemble precious stones, he refains from overstepping the limits of human vision
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