GUILLERMO GÓMEZ GIL (Málaga, 1862 - Cádiz, 1942). "Fleeting Encounter". Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Period frame. Restoration. Measurements: 158 x 59 cm; 188 x 89 cm (frame). In this gallant scene, a man approaches a young woman wrapped in a mantilla and touched with a handkerchief. From the girl's smiling face, we can see that she does not refuse the flattery. From the fragment of the village shown, with its narrow, pebble-paved streets, we can guess at its rustic beauty. Gómez Gil began his training in Malaga, where his first teacher was Emilio Ocón y Rivas, and later continued his studies as a pupil of Federico Ferrándiz and Antonio Muñoz Degrain. He specialised in landscape painting, particularly seascapes, paying particular attention to lighting effects. In 1892 he submitted six landscape paintings to the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid, three of them of the port of Malaga and two entitled "Una borrasca" ("A Squall") and "Efecto de sol" ("Effect of the Sun"). He won a third medal with marine themes at the National Exhibition of 1897 with an oil painting entitled "Efecto de luna" ("Moon Effect"). In 1901 he won a second medal with a work of the same title, and repeated the award in 1906 with "Marina" and "Playas de Málaga". In 1910 he became a teacher at the Seville School of Arts and Industries, living for long periods in Cadiz. A painter of refined technique and great sensitivity, he left for posterity numerous seascapes which are models in their genre, standing out especially in the depiction of the reflection of the sun and moon on the surface of the sea. Guillermo Gómez Gil is represented in the Museo del Prado, the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, the Museo del Patrimonio Municipal de Málaga, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, the Diputación Provincial de Zamora and the Museo de San Telmo in San Sebastián.