Sorolla Y Bastida
JOAQUIN, a Spanish figure, landscape, and portrait painter, born at Valencia, in 1863. He studied art at the academy of his native city, as well as at Madrid and in Italy, but was especially influenced by his study SORSOGON in Paris of the works of Bastien-Lepage and of Menzel. The two paintings which brought him his first recognition were recognition "Another Marguerite" (1892), now at the St. Louis (Mo.) Museum, and "Fishing Boats' Return," now at the Luxembourg Museum, Paris. The Grand Prix awarded to him at the Paris Salon in 1900 stamped him as one of the most eminent modern painters, and from then on he has produced an almost incredible number of paintings. Although using comparatively simple color schemes, he was highly successful in achieving remarkable color effects, which, together with his very brilliant technique and his sincere representation, have made his pictures extremely popular. Highly successful special exhibitions of his work were held in Paris, London, and New York.
His principal subjects are landscapes, marines, mothers with babies, children at play, and fisherfolk, almost all of them His portraits, which include those of a large number of prominent people, are distinguished by force of characterization and brilliancy of technique. He has been awarded many gold medals in various countries, and examples of his work are to be found in most of the prominent public and private collections. In the United States he is especially well represented in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. placed out of doors in brilliant sunlight.