Teodoro Pascual Buenaventura - Artist Info

About Teodoro Pascual Buenaventura

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    Teodoro Buenaventura liked to draw as a child, and made drawings of Bulacan landscapes in pen and ink. He also received some art lessons from a Spanish artist.

    After he became fatherless at the age of 14, Teodoro Buenaventure looked for work in Manila. The mother of Ramon Salas, who became his employer, saw a copy he made of an historical painting. Much impressed, she sent him to the Escuela Superior de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado deo Manila.

    In 1895 he entered three oils, Despues del Banio, (After the Bath), Cabeza del Estudio, (Head Study), and Estudio de Natural, (Study from Nature), at the Exposition Regional de Filipinas. One of the three earned a gold medal. In 1899 he opened a portrait ...

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