Origin: Spanish

A premier creator of painted views of the immortal city of canals, Antonio Maria de Reyna Manescau began life and his artistic passion in Malaga, studying at the Spanish city's School of Fine Art. Encouraged to study abroad, he arrived in Rome and traveled on to Venice as early as 1876, and immediately began a…

Considered a definitive 19th century painter of scenes of the immortal city of Venice, alongside American Thomas Moran and Peruvian Federico del Campo, Spanish artist Martin Rico y Ortega mastered light qualities within his romantic real-life compositions. Born in Madrid, he would later make his home in Paris, and annually summered on the northwest Italian…