Modern Spanish painting; being a review of some of the chief painters and paintings of the Spanish school since the time of Goya (1908)
Temple, A. G. (Alfred George), 1848-1928 · London : A. Fairbairns & company, limited · leaf 78
as a pilot, and became noted for his skill anddaring. He passed successfully through the Naval School, but afterthree years abandoned the sea and pursued an energetic course ofstudy in the Madrid Academy, where he was greatly assisted byAlejo Vera, and enabled to visit Rome. Although in his later… … MODERN SPANISH PAINTING 37 but the work which brought him substantial fame, was The Spoliarium(1886, 3rd Class Medal, Paris Salon). It was the outcome of hislonely musings among the ruins of the Coliseum, and pictured theplace adjoining the arena, to which the dead bodies of thevanquished…
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