Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza

Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza ( born September 25, 1875 in Ferrol, Galicia, † March 17, 1960 in Madrid) was a Spanish painter.

Álvarez graduated in Toledo a degree in civil engineering and began to study law, philosophy and literature. He also took lessons from the painters José Gutiérrez and José Vera. From 1892 he studied in Madrid with Manuel Domínguez Sánchez. 1899 gave him a scholarship to study at the Academia Española de Bellas Artes in Rome.

1908 invited him to the Chilean government by its Spanish Consul General Mathias Huelin one to take a position as professor at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Santiago. During his teaching career, most recently as director of the school, he was formative for a whole group of painters who became known under the name Generación del Trece, Generación del Centenario, Generación Tragica or Generación Sotomayor. Their most prominent representatives were Agustin Abarca, Francisco Alcalde, Judith Alpi, Lidia Berroeta de Novoa, Enrique Bertrix, Abelardo " Paschin " Bustamante, Marco A. Bonta, Alfredo Bustos, Jerónimo Costa, Carlos Isamitt, Jorge Delano, Manuel Gallinato, Lautaro Garcia, Ricardo Gilbert, Otto Georgi, Arturo Gordon, Luis Johnson, Laureano Guevara, Humberto Izquierdo, Jorge Letelier, the brothers Alfredo, Enrique and Alberto Lobos, Pedro Luna, Andres Madariaga, Jorge Madge, Guillermo Maira, Fernando Meza, Oscar Millán, Elmina Moissan Camilo Mori, Enrique Moya, Ortíz de Zárate Julio, Pedro Ovalle, Franco Pailantonio, Ezequiel Plaza, José Prida y Solares, Dora Puelma, Benito Rebolledo, Ulises Vásquez, Guillermo Vergara, Nicanor and Jaime Vergara torrent.

After his return to Spain was Álvares court painter of King Alfonso XIII. In 1922 he became director of the Museo del Prado and a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. After the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931 Álvares was forced to resign, but took over after the end of the Spanish Civil War, the direction of the Museum again.

1947 Alvarez went to Buenos Aires. There he organized an exhibition of contemporary Spanish painter and sculptor and painted the portraits of President Juan Domingo Peron and his wife María Eva Duarte de Perón. In 1953 he was appointed director of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Two years later he resigned for reasons of age.

Works

• Orfeo Atacado por las Bacantes, oil on canvas, 233 x 296 cm
• Retrato de Don Marcial Martínez, oil on canvas, oval, 64 x 53 cm
• Autorretrato, oil on canvas, 46 x 71 cm.
• El Paular, oil on canvas, 60 x 78.5 cm.
• María del Carmen, oil on canvas, 44.5 x 34.5 cm.
• Estudio para un Retrato de la Condesa de Amurrio, oil on canvas, 44.5 x 34.5 cm.
• Retrato de Marcial Martínez, oil on canvas, 130 x 103 cm.
• Don Juan de Borbón, Conde de Barcelona, ​​ca 1935, oil on canvas, 207 x 145 cm
• Gitana con Pandereta, oil on canvas, 61 x 57 cm
• Pescaderas C., oil on canvas, 178 x 140 cm.
• Los Borrachos, oil on canvas
• Los Abuelos, 1905, oil on canvas, 92.5 x 73.5 cm.
• Aldeana Gallega C., 1907, oil on canvas, 122.5 x 78 cm
• Retrato de Doña Luisa Mende Ville de Valdés, 1910, oil on canvas, 192 x 213 cm
• Don Alejandro Silva de la Fuente, 1914, oil on canvas, 76 x 58 cm
• Doña Carmen Yoacham Varas de Silva, 1914, oil on canvas, 76 x 58 cm
• Cena Gallega, 1915, oil on canvas, 75 x 101 cm
• Doña Mercedes Fernández de Yrarrazabal, 1915, charcoal on paper, 66 x 45 cm
• Retrato del Pintor Alfredo Helsby, 1917, oil on canvas, 100 x 58 cm
• Comida de Bergantiños, 1917, oil on canvas
• S.M.R.D. Alfonso XIII, 1920, oil on canvas
• Madre Bretoña, 1922, oil on canvas