FOUR MOMENTS OF THE DAY. OIL ON CANVAS. MANUEL BARRÓN, SPAIN, 19TH CENTURY.
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Four moments of the day, Seville. Oil on canvas. BARRÓN Y CARRILLO, Manuel. 19th century. Signed (lower right area). Labels on the backs. Manuel Barrón y Carrillo (Seville, 1814-1884) was a Spanish painter considered the leading figure of Romantic landscape painting and Andalusian genre painting. He trained with Antonio Cabral Bejarano and at the School of Fine Arts in Seville (where he would later become a professor and director). He was one of the founders of the Artistic Lyceum of Seville (1838) and a member of the Economic Society of Friends of the Country of Seville, as well as an academician of the Royal Academy of Saint Isabel of Hungary. It is known that he presented works at the exhibitions of the Lyceum and the Economic Society of Seville as early as 1838, although his first known work is dated 1852. He primarily painted landscapes, although his genre paintings (particularly those depicting everyday life in Seville), still lifes, and portraits are also highly regarded. His paintings are held in several private collections and in institutions such as the Prado Museum in Madrid, the Museum of Fine Arts in Seville, the National Museum of Romanticism (Madrid, Spain), the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga, and others. These four landscapes are a good example of what is typical and what is usually highlighted in this painter's work. Compare one of the paintings with the View of the Guadalquivir, painted in 1854 and now in the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga (inventory CTB.2002.18), which has a very similar composition, even in the figures depicted. The Museum of Fine Arts in Seville also holds a pair of vertical landscapes by the same artist, dated 1854, entitled Sunset (inventory DJ1306P) and Sunrise (DJ1307P).
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