1854-1937  Related Paintings of Henry Raschen :. | Portrait of Eugene Bouguereau | Still Life with a Magnolia (mk35) | The Empire of Flora (detail) afd | Open Window at Collioure (mk35) | Still life with Yellow Straw Hat (nn04) |
Related Artists:
Arthur Mathews
an American Tonalist painter who was one of the founders of the American Arts and Crafts movement 1860-1945
Nicolino V. Calyo
American, 1799-1884
LEDESMA, Blas de
Spanish painter documented 1602-1614 in Granada,Spanish painter. He is known to have worked in Granada from 1602, and in 1614 he designed a stucco vault decoration for the Alhambra. Archival sources testify to his renown as a painter of decorative fresco grotesques (untraced) and still-lifes. His activity as a still-life painter remains debatable, partly because he has been confused with Blas de Prado and also because of Torres Marten's controversial attributions. Ledesma's only unanimously accepted autograph painting is Still-life with Cherries and Flowers (Atlanta, GA, High Mus. A.), signed in Granada. A highly decorative painting, it shows none of the sophistication of still-lifes by Juan Senchez Cot?n, in Granada from 1603. It is painted meticulously and drily. Depicting a severely drawn, rather flat basket on a narrow ledge flanked by flowers behind it, the rigorously symmetrical composition is relieved only by soft lighting and the studied disarray of some fallen cherries. Two other unsigned and poorly preserved still-lifes of analogous subject-matter have been attributed to Ledesma