ÁNGEL MARÍA CORTELLINI (Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, 1819 - Madrid, after 1887).

ÁNGEL MARÍA CORTELLINI (Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, 1819 - Madrid, after 1887). "Ría de Vigo", 1890. Watercolour on cardboard. Signed, dated and titled in the lower right corner. Size: 23,5 x 34,5 cm; 37 x 49 cm (frame). Ángel María Cortellini was a Spanish painter very appreciated for his works of costumbrista themes, belonging to the Andalusian current, although he was also a magnificent portraitist. His Italian father married a woman from Cádiz and Ángel María soon began to draw in his native city, later moving on to the studio of the master Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer in Seville. While still a young man, he was able to travel to the land of his father's family, contemplating and collecting views of cities in northern Italy, returning later to Seville to continue and complete his artistic training until he moved to Madrid in 1847. In the capital he won numerous awards (one of the main ones was his appointment as painter to the Royal Chamber, where he painted numerous portraits of Isabella II and Francisco de Asís; he was awarded the Gold Medal at the National Exhibition of 1866 for a portrait and another in 1871 for a historical theme, etc.). His work is currently held in numerous private collections (mainly Spanish), as well as in institutions such as the Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Romanticism in Madrid, the Valencia Museum of Fine Arts, etc.