VICENTE CASTELLO Y AMAT Valencia (1787 / 1860) "Portrait of Don Antonio Quiles, lawyer"

Oil on canvas. Signed on the lower right: "Vte. CastellO Fecit" Vicente CastellO is one of the most distinguished disciples of Vicente LOpez in Valencia. An especially prolific artist, he practiced different genres such as religious painting, still life and portraiture. It is in this last field in which fewer testimonies have been preserved and what makes this painting that we present here become something unique within his abundant production. Ossorio recalls that he "painted countless portraits of the most distinguished people", but today only the one of the sculptor Jos Cloosterman, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia, and a couple of Self-portraits, have been located. from the collections of the Count of Alto Barcils and LAzaro Galdiano. The lawyer Antonio Quiles is represented in full length and sitting at his desk in a domestic environment. In his composition, color and formal repertoires, the influence of his teacher, the painter Vicente LOpez, becomes evident. Measurements: 160 x 98 cm.