Sala Francés, Emilio - (Alcoy, Alicante, 1850-Madrid, 1910)

Descriptio Oil on canvas, measuring 65 x 54 cm, with a certificate from Adrián Espí Valdés, expert in 19th and 20th century painting, cataloguer and curator of the Sala exhibitions, and biographer of the master, author of the only existing annotated biography: “The Painter Emilio Sala and His Work, ” Valencia, “Alfonso el Magnánimo Institution, ” 1975 (239 pp.). Spanish painter. He studied at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia with Plácido Francés, who was his first cousin. In 1871, he traveled to Madrid, where he made copies of the great masters in the Prado Museum, especially Velázquez, and where he exhibited the painting “The Imprisonment of the Prince of Viana” at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts. In 1878, he won a first medal at the National Exhibition with his historical painting, Guillem de Vinatea Before Alfonso IV, Making Him Revoke a Law Against His Royal Charter, as he did again in 1881 with Novus Ortus (an allegory of the Renaissance). In 1885, he traveled to Rome, where he became acquainted with the work of Renaissance painters and befriended Francisco Pradilla, Federico de Madrazo, and Joaquín Sorolla. He then moved to Paris, where he completed his famous history painting, The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain (1492), which he submitted to the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris. The Parisian public failed to understand or appreciate the subject matter, as history painting was already considered outdated in Paris. Therefore, the following year he sent it to the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid, where it caused a great stir, both for depicting a dark chapter in Spanish history and because the painting foreshadowed Valencian Luminism. He continued to participate in the Salon des Beaux-Arts des Champs-Élysées for several years with works of a literary and genre nature, as well as portraits such as that of Princess Eulalia. Upon his return to Spain, he settled in Madrid, where he was appointed professor of color aesthetics at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts and where he published *The Grammar of Color*, which became a textbook in the Schools of Fine Arts of Madrid and Barcelona. His students included María Blanchard and Cecilio Pla. He also worked as an illustrator for publications such as *Blanco y Negro* and *La Ilustración Española y Americana*. PROVENANCE: important private Spanish collection. Reference bibliography: Espí Valdés, Adrián, *El pintor Emilio Sala y su obra*, Valencia, Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 1975.

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