Gustave Charles Bacarisas was born in Gibraltar on 23 September 1872. The eldest of three brothers, his parents being Gabriel Bacarisas and Adela Podesta; the family was then living in Castle Street.... Read full biography
Gustave Charles Bacarisas was born in Gibraltar on 23 September 1872. The eldest of three brothers, his parents being Gabriel Bacarisas and Adela Podesta; the family was then living in Castle Street. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Line Wall Road, and already as a young boy had... Read full biography
Gustave Charles Bacarisas was born in Gibraltar on 23 September 1872. The eldest of three brothers, his parents being Gabriel Bacarisas and Adela Podesta; the family was then living in Castle Street. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Line Wall Road, and already as a young boy had impressed everybody by one of his paintings of a warrior on horseback. One of the very first paintings that exist of the artist is a portrait of his brother Francisco painted in 1890. In 1892, at the... Read full biography
Gustave Charles Bacarisas was born in Gibraltar on 23 September 1872. The eldest of three brothers, his parents being Gabriel Bacarisas and Adela Podesta; the family was then living in Castle Street. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Line Wall Road, and already as a young boy had impressed everybody by one of his paintings of a warrior on horseback. One of the very first paintings that exist of the artist is a portrait of his brother Francisco painted in 1890. In 1892, at the age of 19, a group of Gibraltarian businessmen, at the initiative of a John Imossi, realizing his artistic potential, granted him a scholarship to study art in Rome. His earliest pencil drawings Male Head, Female Nude and Male Nude date from this... Read full biography
Gustave Charles Bacarisas was born in Gibraltar on 23 September 1872. The eldest of three brothers, his parents being Gabriel Bacarisas and Adela Podesta; the family was then living in Castle Street. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Line Wall Road, and already as a young boy had impressed everybody by one of his paintings of a warrior on horseback. One of the very first paintings that exist of the artist is a portrait of his brother Francisco painted in 1890. In 1892, at the age of 19, a group of Gibraltarian businessmen, at the initiative of a John Imossi, realizing his artistic potential, granted him a scholarship to study art in Rome. His earliest pencil drawings Male Head, Female Nude and Male Nude date from this period (1893). During his long sojourn in the Italian capital he attended the Academia EspaƱola de Bellas Artes situated in S... Read full biography
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