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In the first years of the 19th century, many foreign artists visited and resided in Argentina, leaving their works. Among them were English mariner Emeric Essex Vidal (1791–1861), a watercolorist who left important graphic evidence of Argentine history; French engineer Carlos E. Pellegrini (1800–1875), who was devoted to painting out of necessity and who would be the father of president ...
Carlos Morel (12 February 1813 – 10 September 1894) was a prominent Argentine painter in the nineteenth century, known as the first truly Argentine painter.
Benjamin Franklin Rawson (29 March 1819 or 1820 – 14 March 1871) was an Argentine painter who belonged to the first generation of Argentine painters called the "precursors". [1] [2] [3] His best known works are the Murder of Manuel Vicente Maza and Rescue in the Cordillera. [2]
Prilidiano Pueyrredón (January 24, 1823 – November 3, 1870) was an Argentine painter, architect and engineer. One of the country's first prominent painters, he was known for his costumbrist sensibility and preference for everyday themes.
Together, they founded the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in 1875, an important early milestone in the development of artisan guilds in Argentina. Sívori earned recognition for his Dolce far niente ("Sweet Do Nothing"), for which he was awarded a gold medal at the 1880 Continental Art Salon of Buenos Aires.
Julia Wernicke (August 26, 1860 – October 25, 1932) was an Argentine painter and engraver. She is known as the first animalist painter from Argentina and incorporated exotic animals into her paintings. She paved the way for female artists in Argentina through many firsts, especially within the discipline of engraving.
Malharro's work took an increasingly Symbolist direction and away from earlier studies on wheat fields, a common subject among Impressionist artists in Argentina at the time. Malharro, Fernando Fader , Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós and other artists following the same trend became the first prominent Post-Impressionists in Argentina, where they ...
After studying at the City of Lights and Barcelona, deeply know the works and techniques of early Renaissance masters and contact and the avant-garde, in 1921 Gómez returned to Argentina and exposed in the defunct Galería Chandler of Buenos Aires the first pictures with Cubist and Fauvist influences known in Argentina, having a pioneering ...