Fernando Cabrera Canto - Artist Info

About Fernando Cabrera Canto

  • Biography

    Fernando Cabrera Cantó was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He began his artistic training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia. There he was a disciple of the Alcoyano painter Lorenzo Casanova Ruiz. He completed artwork in Madrid with Casto Plasencia and in Italy, a country to which he was able to travel thanks to a pension granted by the Provincial Council of Alicante.

    He collaborated with the architect Vicente Pascual Pastor in the decoration of the Casa del Pavo, one of the most outstanding works of modernism in Alcoy. In the back of this building he located his painting studio.

    In the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1890 he won the silver medal with a canvas entitled Orphans, an...

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