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Joaquín Sorolla
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was a leading Spanish painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in Valencia in 1863 but orphaned as an infant, he was raised by an aunt who recognised and encouraged his precocious artistic talent.
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He was studying drawing by eleven, painting at the Academy in Valencia in his late teens, and soon exhibiting in Madrid. Not yet 21, his first large history painting was acquired by the Spanish government in 1884.
A prominent career in his homeland was predicted, but early on Sorolla determined on greater fame than that.
He began to send large-scale, brilliantly colourful paintings on themes of Spanish peasant life and the problems confronting Spanish society to major exhibitions across Europe and the Americas – Buenos Aires, Chicago, Munich, Paris, Venice, Vienna – where invariably he won prestigious awards and sales to leading institutions.
His first exhibition in London, in 1908 where he was advertised as The Wor