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Ramon Bayeu
1746-1793
Spanish
Ramon Bayeu Gallery
The biography of Jose del Castillo (Madrid, 14.10.1737-Madrid, 5.10.1793) shows that the artist, being in his youth one of the most appropriate painters for becoming a leader of the artistic movement of the Illustrious Absolutism, ends up performing secondary work, paintings for tapestry and some religious works of art, which was not the field where he could best display his talent. Jose del Castillo is a perfect example of how an unhappy destiny can influence on the professional life of a painter under the regime of that time. Surely the unhappy destiny, in point of fact, does not explain anything and we will have to find out the real reasons why one of the most promising careers in painting of the eighteenth century in Spain was crushed. Probably it was a combination of two unsuccessful elections, from our point of view, that excluded the figure of Jose del Castillo from the elite group of artists of that time.
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Painting ID:: 73669
Obsequio campestre
before 1793(1793)
Oil on canvas
183 X 146 cm (72.05 X 57.48 in)
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Painting ID:: 88289
Portrait of Manuel Godoy
1790(1790)
Medium Oil
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Ramon Bayeu
1746-1793
Spanish
Ramon Bayeu Gallery
The biography of Jose del Castillo (Madrid, 14.10.1737-Madrid, 5.10.1793) shows that the artist, being in his youth one of the most appropriate painters for becoming a leader of the artistic movement of the Illustrious Absolutism, ends up performing secondary work, paintings for tapestry and some religious works of art, which was not the field where he could best display his talent. Jose del Castillo is a perfect example of how an unhappy destiny can influence on the professional life of a painter under the regime of that time. Surely the unhappy destiny, in point of fact, does not explain anything and we will have to find out the real reasons why one of the most promising careers in painting of the eighteenth century in Spain was crushed. Probably it was a combination of two unsuccessful elections, from our point of view, that excluded the figure of Jose del Castillo from the elite group of artists of that time.
. Related Artists to Ramon Bayeu: | Ludwig von Hofmann | Salomon van Ruysdael | Domenico Zampieri | Otakar Lebeda | BEMBO, Bonifazio |
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