Ricardo de Madrazo
Ricardo Federico de Madrazo y Garreta (7 February 1852 – 18 August 1917) was a Spanish painter from the Madrazo family of artists, best known for his Orientalist works. He was also the brother-in-law of the great Spanish Orientalist, Mariano Fortuny, who would be a major influence on both his life and work.
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Ricardo de Madrazo

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- Name
- Ricardo de Madrazo
- Birth Name
- Ricardo Federico de Madrazo y Garreta
- Born
- 7 February 1852
- Birthplace
- Madrid, Spain
- Place of death
- Madrid
- Education
- Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando; Accademia Chigi, Rome
- Known for
- Painter
- Movement
- Orientalist
- Died
- 1917
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- painter · sculptor
- Fields
- portrait
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Ricardo Federico de Madrazo y Garreta (7 February 1852 – 18 August 1917) was a Spanish painter from the Madrazo family of artists, best known for his Orientalist works. He was also the brother-in-law of the great Spanish Orientalist, Mariano Fortuny, who would be a major influence on both his life and work.
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Ricardo de Madrazo (1852–1917) was a painter and sculptor, of Spanish nationality. The painter was associated with Orientalism. The work spans portrait.
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• Name — Ricardo de Madrazo • Birth Name — Ricardo Federico de Madrazo y Garreta • Born — 7 February 1852 • Birthplace — Madrid, Spain • Place of death — Madrid • Education — Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando; Accademia Chigi, Rome • Known for — Painter • Movement — Orientalist
Biography
Biography
Ricardo Frederico de Madrazo y Garretta was born in Madrid into a family of artists with a noble background. His grandfather was José de Madrazo, the painter and former Director of the Prado Museum; his father was Federico de Madrazo, also a painter; his uncles were Luis de Madrazo, a painter, Pedro de Madrazo, an art critic and Juan de Madrazo, an architect; while his brother was Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, also a painter. His maternal grandfather was Tadeusz Kuntze, a Polish painter. The Madrazo family have been described as one of the most important painting dynasties, who literally dominated 19th-century painting in Spain. Madrazo and his brother, Raimundo, initially studied art with their father. Later he pursued formal studies at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando with Joaquim Espalter and the sculptors Ricardo Bellver and Ponciano Ponzano. In 1866, he became friends with Marià Fortuny, who would have a major influence on his art and life. The following year, Fortuny married his sister, Cecilia de Madrazo. He accompanied the Fortuny family to Toledo, then went with him to Rome, where he studied at the Accademia Chiggi. Later, he and his brother Raimundo would work in Fortuny's studio. • Illustration — Cecilia de Madrazo, painting by Frederico de Madrazo, 1869. Ricardo's sister, Cecilia married Ricardo's friend, the great Spanish painter, Maria Fortuny De Madrazo accompanied Fortuny and his family again when they moved to Paris and spent his time copying works at the Louvre and the Musée du Luxembourg. During the Franco-Prussian War, he and Raimundo returned to Spain; settling in Granada. Later, he travelled to Morocco with Fortuny and Josep Tapiró, then returned to Rome. He travelled to Morocco again following Fortuny's untimely death in 1874. After Fortuny's death, de Madrazo took care of his studio; cataloguing his works and arranging for an auction at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris. Meanwhile, his sister, Cecilia, devoted the rest of her life to the preservation of her husband's memory. After Fortuny's death, de Madrazo moved between Paris, Madrid and Tangiers; living in Venice for a short time, marrying in 1884 and finally settling in Madrid in 1885 and using it as base to make annual trips to Paris and Venice. Once established in Madrid, he began to focus on portraits, which were a Madrazo family specialty. Among those who visited him at his studio were Queen Maria Christina, the philanthropist Archer Milton Huntington, the French art collector Paul Durand-Ruel and President William Taft. His knowledge of ancient art made him a sought-after adviser.
Work
Work
His most well-known works include: • Marroquíes (Moroccans) • Turistas y Mendigos (Tourists and Beggars) • Un Mercado de Fez (A Market in Fez) • Alto en una Caravana árabe (Stop for an Arab Caravan) • Atelier de Fortuny (Marià Fortuny's Studio in Rome), 1874 (now in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya) • Resto de la Caravana Árabe (Rest for an Arab Caravan), 1880 • Un Árabe de Sud (A Moor from the South), 1881
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
His recorded language was Spanish. He was the child of Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz and Luisa Garreta y Huerta.

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Villar (Aniceto García Villar, 1897 – circa 1985 date QS:P,+1985-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480)
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1852
Ricardo de Madrazo was born in 1852.
1917
Ricardo de Madrazo died at Madrid.
Selected paintings
• Illustration — Marià Fortuny's Studio, 1874 • Illustration — Rest Stop for an Arab Caravan, 1877 • Illustration — Arab Warrior by a Fountain, 1878 • Illustration — Moor from the South, 1881 • Illustration — The Songstress, 1901 • Illustration — Portrait of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1910
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- 1.His place of birth is not entirely clear. Most sources, including the Spanish Wikipedia :es:Ricardo Madrazo and the biographical notes provided by the Prado Museum, cited elsewhere in this article, give Madrid as the birthplace while occasionally sources give Rome. His older brother, Raimondo, was definitely born in Madrid which may account for the confusion.
- 2.Caso, E.D., Les Orientalistes de l'école Espagnole, ACR edition, 1997, p. 158
- 3.Los Madrazo, una familia de artistas: [Exhibition], Museo Municipal, 1985 [catálogo de la exposición, tapa del libro]
- 4.Brief biography @ the Museo del Prado.
- 5.Caso, E.D., Les Orientalistes de l'école Espagnole, ACR edition, 1997, pp 158-59
- 6."Madrazo y Garreta, Ricardo Federico de," in Enciclopedia, Museo de Prado, Online (translated from Spanish)
- 7.Pulido, N., "El Prado publica el epistolario del Archivo Madrazo," ABC Cultura, 2 December 2017, Online
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Museo Municipal, Los Madrazo, una familia de artistas (exhibition catalog), Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Concejalía de Cultura, 1985
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