Genaro Pérez Villaamil

Genaro Pérez Villaamil studied at Reales Estudios de San Isidro and Real Colegio Militar de Santiago de Compostela. Francisco Maffei Rosal is recorded as having studied under Genaro Pérez Villaamil. The recorded working language is Spanish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are Veduta, watercolor, graphics and lithography. Works named in the authority record are España ­artística y monumental. Work by Genaro Pérez Villaamil is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Hermitage Museum, National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina and Carmen Thyssen Museum. Distinctions recorded are Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, Knight of the Order of Carlos III, Knight of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the Order of Leopold.

• Name — Jenaro Pérez Villaamil • Born — 3 February 1807 • Birthplace — Ferrol, Galicia, Spain • Died — 5 June 1854 • Place of death — Madrid, Spain • Education — Santiago de Compostela • Known for — Painter • Movement — Orientalist; Romantic

He was born in Ferrol, Galicia. In 1812, he was enrolled at the military academy in Santiago de Compostela, where he assisted his father, who was a professor there. He went to Madrid in 1820 to study at the "Reales Estudios de San Isidro" (now part of the Colegio Imperial de Madrid). Three years later, he went to Cádiz to enlist in the army fighting the "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" sent by the Duke of Angoulême. He was wounded and briefly held as a prisoner of war. Afterwards, he remained there to study at the "Escuela de Bellas Artes". In 1830, he went to San Juan, Puerto Rico, with his brother Juan (died 1863), who was also a painter, where they decorated the Teatro Tapia and remained there for a few more years, working as scenographers. Upon his return to Spain in 1833, he made the acquaintance of the Scottish painter David Roberts, who had a decisive influence on his style. • Illustration — Fishermen on the Shore • Illustration — The Tempest He settled in Madrid in 1834 and became a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando the following year. In 1840, he was named honorary court painter to Queen Isabella II. During the regime of Baldomero Espartero, from 1840 to 1844, he left his wife and young child and lived in self-imposed exile in France and Belgium, using artistic affairs as an excuse for his absence. After travelling through Europe, he returned in 1845 and obtained the chair of landscape painting at the Academia, where he later became the director. He returned to Galicia for an extended stay in 1849 and made extensive travels throughout Spain until 1852, when he began to suffer from liver disease. He died in Madrid two years later, aged only forty-seven.