Francisco Sans Cabot
Francisco Sans Cabot, in Catalan: Francesc Sans i Cabot (9 April 1828 in Girona – 5 May 1881 in Madrid) was a Catalan painter who served as Director of the Museo del Prado from 1873 to 1881.
Biography
His father was a navigator in the
Hispano-Moroccan War.[2]
After the overthrow of Queen Regent
Francisco de Goya, which had been removed from the walls at Goya's home and transferred to canvas by Salvador Martínez Cubells, a well-known art restorer. After 1875, Sans was an Academician at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.[1]
Towards the end of his life, he changed his style again, this time trending towards
Alcázar de Toledo
.
References
- ^ a b c Brief biography @ the Museo del Prado website, with details of his tenure as Director.
- ^ a b c Brief biography @ the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.
Further reading
- Francesca Carreras y Candi, El pintor Francisco Sans y Cabot (1828-1881), Barcelona, Academia Provincial de Bellas Artes de Barcelona, 1922.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Francisco Sans Cabot.
- Drawings by Francisco Sans Cabot in the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica of the Biblioteca Nacional de España
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