Ricardo de Madrazo worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Ricardo de Madrazo as Spanish painter (1852-1917).
Ricardo de Madrazo was born at Madrid in 1852. His recorded nationality is Spain. He trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter and sculptor.
His recorded movement is orientalism.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Spain shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Ricardo de Madrazo died in 1917, aged 65. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Orientalism
