SALVADOR SÁNCHEZ-BARBUDO MORALES (Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, 1857 – Rome, 1917).
“Duke”, Rome.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and located in the lower left area.
Measurements: 53 x 43 cm.
SALVADOR SÁNCHEZ-BARBUDO MORALES (Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, 1857 – Rome, 1917). “Duke”, Rome.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and located in the lower left area.
Measurements: 53 x 43 cm.
Interested in drawing and painting since childhood, Sánchez-Barbudo began his training in the Artworkshop of the restorer Pedro Vera. At the age of nineteen he moved to Seville to study at the Provincial School of Fine Arts, thanks to the support of his protector and patron, the Marquis del Castillo, and there he became a disciple of José Villegas. In 1878 he traveled to Madrid to expand his training, remaining in the capital for four years. In 1881 he took part in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts and was awarded a third class medal for his Artwork “A fencing room”. The following year he went to Rome with his teacher. Due to his influence, and given that Villegas was a friend of Rosales, Fortuny, Zamacois and others, as well as a painter with magnificent clientele (Vanderbilt, Stuard, Krupp...), Sánchez-Barbudo began in the fashion genre, costumbrista historicism (known as casacones theme). Fascinated by the artistic atmosphere of the Italian capital, Sánchez-Barbudo decided to settle and, since then, make the city the protagonist of his painting. In addition to the subjects of casacones, he cultivated high society scenes and landscapes, in small format paintings, and stood out especially in portraiture. Occasionally he sent Artworks to the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts in Madrid. In 1884 he sent to Spain the monumental canvas titled “Hamlet. Last scene”, with which he won a second medal in the National Championship that same year. He exported his Artworks especially to England, where his paintings of historicist manners had an extraordinary reception, and he himself enjoyed fame as an exquisite painter. Sánchez-Barbudo demonstrates in his Artworks a perfect mastery of the bases of the genre: a wise combination of bourgeois naturalism and loosely crafted preciousness. His brushstroke is fast and precise, and gives the chromaticism a totally personal vibration and variety. He Artworked with small touches, both on the figures and on the settings, paying special attention to the atmosphere. He was also an excellent watercolorist and engraver.