Gonzalo Salvá and Simbor

GONZALO SALVÁ Y SIMBOR, (Paris, 1845 - Valencia, 1923).
"Hermitage View".
Oil on canvas adhered to board.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 22 x 44 cm; 33 x 55 cm (frame).
He was born in Paris on April 7, 1845, son of the Valencian bibliographer Pedro Salvá y Mallen. He made his first studies under the direction of Rafael Montesinos, and later in the Superior School of Fine Arts of Madrid and in Paris. In the mid 1880s he was a professor at the School of Valencia.
His main works were: San Rafael, life-size; Portrait of D .Mariano Vallés, rector of the University of Valencia; another portrait of Antonio Ripollés, provincial deputy; Interior of the courtyard of a castle, in the act of going out hunting his lords, at the time of Carlos I; Corral of the house of a Valencian farmer; The celebration of the mass in a hovel of Aragon; The priest of a chapel of the outskirts of Valencia blessing the domestic animals that are presented to him; María Estuardo jurando sobre los Evangelios que es inocente, después de escuchar la lectura de su sentencia de muerte; Impresiones de capellanes; retratos de Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, Eduardo Rosales y Cristóbal Pascual y Genís; Un recuerdo de los breñales de Chelva; Cristo ante el tribunal de Pilatos, and El entierro del Salvador, for the church of Chelva.
Many of the previous works appeared in different exhibitions, being awarded a silver medal in the regional one of Valencia in 1867. In 1881 he published a Treatise on Linear Perspective. Salvá, who was Joaquín Sorolla's teacher, died in 1923 in Valencia.