Jose Garnelo Y Alda - Artist Info

About Jose Garnelo Y Alda

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Jose Santiago Garnelo y Alda
  • Biography

    José Santiago Garnelo y Alda (25 July 1866 – 28 October 1944) was a Spanish painter in the Naturalist style. He mostly did genre scenes, portraits and scenes from Classical history
    Garnelo was born in Enguera.

    His father was a doctor and the family settled in Montilla when he was only two. In 1882, after graduating from the local schools, he went to Sevilla to study philosophy and literature, but soon abandoned those pursuits to enroll at the "Escuela de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría", where he studied painting until 1885 with Eduardo Cano de la Peña [es] and Manuel Ussel de Guimbarda
    He continued his studies at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, where his instructors included Casto Plasenci...

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