ARTIST

Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz

1848–1921 · Spain

Pradilla painted over 1,000 works, winning Spain's Medal of Honor with a haunting portrait of a mad queen dragging her husband's coffin.

ABOUT

Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz (24 July 1848 – 1 November 1921) was a prolific Spanish painter famous for creating historical scenes. == Biography == He was born in Villanueva de Gállego, in Zaragoza Province and began his studies in Zaragoza. He then transferred to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and, later, the "Academia de Acuarelistas" (Academy of Watercolorists) in Madrid. In 1873, he became one of the first students chosen to study at the new Spanish Acad…

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NOTABLE WORKS
Doña Joanna the Mad 1877 · Museo del Prado Doña Juana la loca 1878 · National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina La rendición de Granada 1882 · Palace of the Senate The Sigh of the Moor 1885 Galician Washerwomen 1887 · Carmen Thyssen Museum La reina doña Juana la Loca, recluida en Tordesillas con su hija, la infanta doña Catalina 1906 · Museo del Prado
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