All Portana, Vicente Lopez's oil paintings
ID Image  Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z     Other Information
19917 Commemorative Painting Charles IV's Visit to Valencia University Commemorative Painting Charles IV's Visit to Valencia University Oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid.
64339 queen maria gristina queen maria gristina 1830 madrid, prado
19919 The Duke of Infantado The Duke of Infantado 1827 Oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid.
19918 The Painter Francisco de Goya The Painter Francisco de Goya 1826 Oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Portana, Vicente Lopez
Spanish Painter, 1772-1850 was a Spanish painter, considered the best portrait painter of his time. Vicente Lepez y Portaña was born in Valencia on September 19, 1772. His parents were Cristebal Lepez Sanchordi and Manuela Portaña Meer. Vicente Lepez began formally studying painting in Valencia at the age of thirteen, he was a disciple of father Antonio de Villanueva, a Franciscan monk, and he studied at the Academy of San Carlos in his native city. He was seventeen when he won first price in drawing and coloring receiving a scholarship to study in the prestigious Academia Real de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. For the following three years in Madrid, he apprenticed with the Valencian painter, Mariano Salvador Maella. Vicente Lepez returned to Valencia in 1794 and subsequently became vice-director of painting at the Academy where he had studied as a boy. . Related Artists to : | Charles Hunt | George Hayter | Nils Schillmark | abstract composition | Henry Fuseli |