Mariano salvador maella biography

Mariano Salvador Maella Pérez (21 August 1739 – 10 May 1819) was a Spanish painter known primarily for his portraits and religious frescoes.
Spanish painter, son of the painter Mariano Maella who was his first teacher.
Biography: Painter and printmaker, born Valencia.

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Selected Group Exhibitions

Mariano Salvador de Maella was a Spanish Old Masters painter who was born in 1739. Numerous key galleries and museums such as National Museum of Fine Arts, Chile have featured Mariano Salvador de Maella's work in the past.Mariano Salvador de Maella's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 539 USD to 221,340 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 221,340 USD for L'apothéose d'Hadrien: projet pour le plafond du Palais Royal de Madrid, sold at Christie's Paris in 2010. Mariano Salvador de Maella has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Fine Art Connoisseur and Glasstire. The most recent article is Badass Queens From Classical History written for Daily Art Magazine in December 2024. The artist died in 1819.

Artist's alternative names: Maella, Marià Salvador Maella i Pérez, Mariano Salvador Maella, Salvador de Maella

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Mariano Salvador Maella

Spanish painter (1739–1819)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Maella and the second or maternal family name is Pérez.

Mariano Salvador Maella Pérez (21 August 1739 – 10 May 1819) was a Spanish painter known primarily for his portraits and religious frescoes. He was appointed chamber painter of King Charles IV of Spain in 1774 and became well known for his portraits.

Biography

Maella was born in Valencia. His artistic education began with his father, who was also a painter. In 1752, at the age of eleven, he moved to Madrid and received lessons from Felipe de Castro, a sculptor who helped introduce the Neoclassical style to Spain.^[1] This was followed by enrollment at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, where he attracted the attention of Antonio González Velázquez (whose daughter he would later marry).

In 1757, with the money from three prizes awarded by the Academia and the support of his family, he was able to study in Rome. He returned to Spain in 1765 and participated

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Biography

Spanish painter, son of the painter Mariano Maella who was his first teacher. He moved to Madrid, where he studied sculpture with Felipe de Castro in Madrid who introduced the Neoclassical taste to the Hispanic sculpture. In 1752, he enters the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, where he is in the service of Antonio González Velázquez, the painting teacher of the institution. This relationship will lead the marriage with his daughter, Maria González Velázquez some years later, in 1767. In 1757 he made a trip to America, then in the beginning of 1758 he went to Rome. At about 1764 he returned to Madrid and started a professional career.

Later he became painter of the chamber to the king and director general of the Academy of San Fernando. Along with Bayeu in 1775 he was commissioned to repaint and restore the damaged canvases by Juan de Borgoña in the cloister of the cathedral of Toledo. As an engraver, he illustrated the vignettes published with the works of Francisco Quevedo in 1772. One of his pupils was Vicente López y Portaña.

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