Domingo Fernández González

DOMINGO FERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ (Seville, 1862 - Buenos Aires?, 1918).
"Young Man in an Interior".
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the upper left corner.
It presents a restoration on the back, and a label of the English gallery "Sammer Galleries".
Measurements: 56,5 x 46,5 cm; 90 x 80 cm (frame).
A young woman with a lively expression, wearing a scarf under which her red hair spreads, looks at us with curiosity.
She is wearing a frilly skirt and a bright pink shirt. Behind her, a white wooden bed occupies a room with a couple of paintings hanging on the walls. Using sinuous, energetic touches, the painter captures the interior atmosphere and the girl's carefree character with a veristic zeal.
A painter of landscapes and genre scenes, Domingo Fernández González is a painter of whom we know only a few biographical details. He must have trained in his native Seville and no doubt furthered his studies in Rome, where he was a member of the Societá degli Acquarelisti. During his stay in Italy he also visited Venice, where he produced numerous works and studies which he later exhibited on his return to Spain in an important one-man show held in 1902 at the Sala Parés in Barcelona. Later, at a date unknown to us but probably prior to 1910, he went to Argentina, settling in Buenos Aires. There he took part in the Spanish Art Exhibitions that were held regularly. He is currently represented in the National Museums of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and Havana, as well as in various private collections.