Jose Maria Fenollera y Ibanez (Valencia, December 10, 1851 - Santiago de Compostela, December 6, 1918) was a Spanish painter, known especially for his portraits.
Biography
He studied at the School of Fine Arts in San Carlos, in his hometown, to enjoy a five-year stay (1872 to 1877) in Rome, pensioned by the Provincial Council of Valencia along with other painters, such as Sorolla or Pinazo. He later traveled to Paris, learning the technique of photogravure, to finally settle in Madrid, where he made cartons for the Royal Tapestry Factory and contributed to the decoration of the extinct Café de Fornos. In 1887 he moved to Santiago de Compostela, where he settled and worked as a professor at the School of Fine Arts, maintaining a close relationship with the regional movement. From this period he emphasizes his activity as a portrait painter, painting such famous figures as Alfredo Brañas, Montero Ríos, José Carvajal Hue or Cardinal Payá, and the successive presidents of the Economic Society of Friends of the Compostela Country. The frescoes of the paraninfo of the University also sprouted from his brush.
He married in 1890 with the Galician aristocrat Consuelo Velón and González-Pardo.
Between the prizes that obtained emphasizes the gold medal, with diploma of honor, in the Regional Exhibition Gallega, celebrated in Santiago de Compostela in the year 1909.2
Bibliography
Jorge Fernández-Cid. «José María Fenollera: a disturbing and iconoclastic artist (between Romanticism and Modernity)». Accessed January 8, 2014.
A century of Valencian painting and sculpture through the pensioners of the Hon. Provincial Council of Valencia. Valencia, 1946.
References
José Manuel García Iglesias (December 28, 2006). «José María Fenollera». The Galician Post. Accessed January 8, 2014.
Alfonso Fernández-Cid Fenollera (August 23, 2006). «It is urgent to restore the paintings of Fenollera». The Galician Post. Accessed January 8, 2014.
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