If there is a painter, who can be admired and enjoyed by novices, I mean,even by casuals, or rather by people without a background in the painting art, this is, it has to be Joaquin Sorolla, thea Spanish painter.

Born in Valencia in the bosom ofto a humble family, he lost his parents, victims of a cholera epidemic, when he was only two years old.

He and his sister were takenadopted by anhis aunt – his mother’s sisterde – and her husband, who earnedmade a living as a locksmith.

Sorolla learnt it, but he was already at that time fascinated by painting.

His skills in the subject were discovered early, when he was at the secondary school in Valencia and, being. Only thirteen years old, he made thetook his first steps, attending classes inat the Artisans School for a period of two years.

ThaIt would bemark the beginnings of a shiningtellar career.

In this first age theA prominent Spanish painter of the seventeenth century, Diego Velázquez, was very important, then the curriculum at the School of Fine Arts was devoted to himDiego Velázquez.

After completing his studies and a fruitless participationdisappointing showing at The National Exhibition of Fine Art in Madrid in 1881, Sorolla would not only rediscover Velázquez at The Prado Museum, but also painters like Ribera orand El Greco.

Apart from painters of the Spanish Golden Age, another important discovery was donmade in those formationve years: landscape and light in the framework of painting.

Definitely, thoThese would be the areas, where Sorolla’s work would stand out.

Three years later he would return to Madrid to win at the second medal atannual iteration of The National Exhibition of Fine Art.

That award wasould be followed by others, feat thats which would opened several doors to himfor Sorolla int the art world, as. Among them: a scholarship to study at the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.