GONZALO SALVÁ Y SIMBOR (Paris, 1845 - Valencia,... Lot 35

GONZALO SALVÁ Y SIMBOR (Paris, 1845 - Valencia, 1923). "Landscape. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 143 x 79 cm; 145 x 81 cm (frame). He was born in Paris on 7 April 1845, son of the Valencian bibliographer Pedro Salvá y Mallen. He did his early studies under the guidance of Rafael Montesinos, and later at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes in Madrid and in Paris. In the mid-1880s he was a professor at the Valencia School of Fine Arts. His main works were: San Rafael, life-size; Portrait of D .Mariano Vallés, rector of the University of Valencia; another portrait of Antonio Ripollés, provincial deputy; Interior of the courtyard of a castle, in the act of his lords going out hunting, at the time of Charles I; Corral of a Valencian farmer's house; The celebration of mass in a hovel in Aragon; The priest of a chapel on the outskirts of Valencia blessing the domestic animals presented to him; Mary Stuart swearing on the Gospels that she is innocent, after hearing the reading of her death sentence; Impressions of Chaplains; portraits of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, Eduardo Rosales and Cristóbal Pascual y Genís; A Memory of the Chelva Heathlands; Christ before the tribunal of Pilate, and The Burial of the Saviour, for the church of Chelva. Many of his earlier works were exhibited at various exhibitions and he was awarded a silver medal at the regional exhibition in Valencia in 1867. In 1881 he published a treatise on linear perspective. Salvá, who was Joaquín Sorolla's teacher, died in 1923 in Valencia.