Amalia de Llano y Dotres, Condesa de Vilches
Amalia de Llano y Dotres, Condesa de Vilches (Amalia de Llano, a Spanish countess and author) c1853 by Spanish-Italian Painter Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (1815 – 1894); also a lithographer, writer and politician.
This is a wonderful portrait of the Spanish countess and writer Amalia de Llano (1822 – 1874); who was a significant figure of the Spanish cultural life of 19th century Madrid.
She was born into the wealthy bourgeoisie family of Ramón de Llano y Chávarri and Pilar Dotres y Gibert; and when her father passed away, her mother married the IX Marquis of Almonacid de los Oteros; Francisco Falcó y Valcárcel, which moved the family into the circles of the aristocracy.
When she was 17 anys, Amalia married Gonzalo Vilches y Parga (1808 – 1879), the Viscount of La Cervanta; i dins 1848 Queen Isabel II ennobled her husband, which elevated hime to the dignity of Count of Vilches; this then made her the Viscountess of La Cervanta as well as the Countess of Vilches.
This portrait of Amalia has her sitting in a room with a large mirror on the wall to her left, in a beautifully carved wooden chair with a high back with elaborately floral embroidered padding.
She is wearing a blue ruffled dress with a white undergarment with a gold wrap bracelet on her right forearm, a chained and jeweled bracelet on her left wrist as well as a pearl ring with a gold band on the fourth finger of her left hand in which she is holding a large feathered hand fan.
She is resting her right cheek on the fingers of her right hand that are held upwards to her face; and behind her just over the arm of the chair is a deep red cape with a white silk lining and gold decorative trim along its perimeter.
Amalia de Llano y Dotres, Condesa de Vilches is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a canvas print online.
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Federico was born in Rome to José de Madrazo i Agudo (1781 – 1859), pintor i antic director del Museu del Prado; and was part of a line of great artists, that included his grandfather on his mother side; Tadeusz Kuntze (1733 – 1793), un pintor polonès.
Other members of this creative family include his brothers, who were the painter Luis de Madrazo (1825 – 1897), Pedro de Madrazo (1816 – 1898), an art critic and Juan de Madrazo (1829 – 1880), un arquitecte.
Among Federico’s his children were the painter Ricardo de Madrazo (1851 – 1917), Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (1841 – 1920) and Cecilia de Madrazo y Garreta (1846 – 1932) who married the great Orientalist artist, Marià Fortuny (1838 – 1874).
The Madrazo family has been described as one of the most important painting Spanish painting dynasties of the 19th century; which completely dominated painting in Spain during that period.
Federico va començar a prendre lliçons d'art del seu pare, i encara assistint a la Reial Acadèmia de San Fernando, va pintar el seu primer quadre La resurrecció de Crist c1829; que va ser comprat per la reina Cristina.
Poc després d'aquell quadre va crear Aquil·les a la seva tenda, i després va presentar a l'Acadèmia La continència d'Escipió, que li va assegurar l'admissió com a membre “pel mèrit”.
Tres anys més tard, Federico va marxar a París on va estudiar el Franz Winterhalter i va pintar retrats del baró Taylor i Ingres. (un pintor neoclàssic francès).
En 1837 va rebre l'encàrrec de crear un quadre per a la galeria de Versalles, per a la qual va pintar “Godfrey de Bouillon proclamat rei de Jerusalem”; poc després va tornar a Roma i va assumir projectes de creació de retrats per a l'aristocràcia espanyola.
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