Andalusian school of the mid-nineteenth century. Circle of ANDRÉS CORTÉS AGUILAR (Seville, 1812 - 1879). "View of port". Oil on canvas.

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  Andalusian school of the mid-nineteenth century. Circle of ANDRÉS CORTÉS AGUILAR (Seville, 1812 - 1879). "View of port". Oil on canvas. Period frame with live woodworm. Presents faults. Measurements: 96 x 138 cm; 112 x 155 cm (frame). The painter offers us in this work a port view captured in the mid-nineteenth century, from the banks of a river, possibly the Guadalquivir as it passes through some Andalusian city. The landscape, of ambitious composition, appears populated by popular characters in different attitudes. Due to its stylistic and morphological characteristics, the present work can be related to the circle of Andrés Cortés Aguilar, a famous 19th century Andalusian painter. Born to a painter father, Andrés Cortés was the author of a prolific and very personal work, although there is little precise information about his life. His father, Antonio Cortés, lived in France and had been a disciple of the landscape and animal painter Constantin Troyon, which undoubtedly must have marked from his first artistic steps, which he took together with his father, the preference of Andrés Cortés for landscapes with herds, a genre in which he would become one of the most outstanding specialists of his time, and which defines a good part of his production. He also stood out as a great landscape painter of Sevillian costumbrismo, with works in which he was especially influenced by the Dutch masters of the 17th century, something that was common among the Sevillian landscape painters of the time. But what finally determined his recognition in the art world was his friendship with his great protector, the Basque industrialist J. M. Ybarra y Gutiérrez, the future Count of Ybarra, who gave him numerous commissions. Cortés painted other Sevillian views of equally ambitious composition, although he was mainly famous for his rural landscapes with herds. He also painted some portraits, historical subjects and religious scenes, and was an interesting type painter, a facet of which "El tío Gamboa de Hinojos" (private collection) is a good example. Andrés Cortés is represented in the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao, the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza and Bellver collections, the Romantic Museum of Madrid, the old palace of the Marqués de la Vega-Inclán, the City Hall of Seville, the Carmen Thyssen Museum of Málaga and the Museum of Art and Culture of Granada, as well as in various private collections and parishes such as Santa María la Coronada in Cádiz and San Roque in Gibraltar.
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