Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) ✽ Spanish painter

Biography and information Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida) was born at a time when the golden age of Spanish painting, like the Spanish crown, was already in the past. He was not destined to become a court painter, to perpetuate the next monarch and paint the famous temples. Instead, Sorolla painted his family, fishermen, children, and created for the museum in the United States huge panels depicting scenes of village life in the provinces of Spain. He is not among the great ones as Velazquez and Goyato scandalous glory Picasso and Dali he is too far away. In the history of national and world painting the impressionist Sorolla has its own special place. Boy from valencia The future painter was born in Valencia in the family of a merchant. When Joaquin was two years old, and his sister Conchita was only one, their parents died of cholera. Children were taken up by aunt and her husband. Locksmith Jose Picuares from childhood tried to attach Joaquin to his work, but when he s