Ángel María Cortellini
{{Short description|Spanish painter (1819–1887)}}
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Ángel María Cortellini Hernández (1819 – 1887) was a Spanish painter. He received the gold medal of the National Exhibition for his painting, Retrato de señora.
Life
File:La Verónica, Ángel María Cortellini Hernández.jpg)]]
Ángel María Cortellini Hernández was born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Province of Cádiz in 1819. He was the son of an Italian from the Piedmont region who had married a woman of Cadiz. He trained in drawing at an early age before becoming a pupil of Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer. At the age of 17, he traveled to Italy, stopping in Turin, Milan, and Genoa. After two years, he returned to Seville to continue his training, which continued at the Seville Royal Academy of Fine Arts.{{cite web|title=Cortellini Hernández, Angel María|url=http://www.carmenthyssenmalaga.org/en/artist/18|publisher=Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga|accessdate=2 March 2015}} In 1847, he moved to Madrid, settling there permanently.
The following year, he exhibited at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and the Liceo Artístico y Literario. After receiving an appointment in 1850 as the honorary court painter, he created portraits of Queen Isabel II and her husband Francisco de Asis de Bourbon.
Awards
File:Ángel María Cortellini - Retrato de una dama.jpg
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In 1866, he received the gold medal of the National Exhibition for Retrato de señora, and a similar award in 1871 for La batalla de Wad-Ras.{{cite web|title=PINTURA|url=http://www.elromanticismo.es/pintura.htm|publisher=EL CENTRO HARTZENBUSCH PARA EL ESTUDIO Y DOCUMENTACIÓN DEL ROMANTICISMO ESPAÑOL|accessdate=2 March 2015|language=Spanish}} He died in Madrid in 1887.
Gallery
File:El infante Francisco de Paula de Borbón (Museo del Romanticismo de Madrid).JPG|Portrait of Francisco de Paula de Borbón
Ángel María Cortellini Leaving the Bullring.jpg|Leaving the bullring
Ángel María Cortellini No more Wine.jpg|No more wine
File:Angel María Cortellini - Basilio de Chávarri - Google Art Project.jpg|Portrait of Basilio de Chávarri
References
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External links
- {{commons category-inline|Ángel María Cortellini}}
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Category:People from Sanlúcar de Barrameda