Manuel Benedito y Vives

MANUEL BENEDITO Y VIVES (Valencia, 1875 - Madrid, 1963)
"Partridge".
Oil on panel.
Signed in the upper left corner.
Measurements: 18.50 x 14 cm, 37 x 32 cm (frame).
Benedito y Vives begins his formation in the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos of Valencia in 1888, and in the 94 he enters the workshop of Joaquín Sorolla, who will be his main teacher. Two years later he travels with him to Madrid, where he makes illustrations for "La revista moderna" and "Blanco y Negro". He obtained a pension in Rome in 1900 and, after spending four years there, he traveled through France, Belgium and Holland, taking up residence in Volendam in 1909. Among his individual exhibitions, those held in the Amaré room in 1907 and in the "Blanco y Negro" salons in 1910 stand out. He served as artistic advisor to the Royal Tapestry Factory, and was an academician and professor at the Royal Academies of San Fernando and San Carlos, becoming director of the first. In 1925 he was appointed corresponding member of the Hispanic Society of America, corresponding member of the National Academy of Fine Arts of Lisbon, and in 1941 president of the board of trustees of the Sorolla Museum. After his death in 1963 the Casa-Museo Benedito was founded in Madrid. He was awarded the first medal at the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts in 1904 and 1906, and won the gold medal at the Hispano-French Exhibition of 1908, and at the International Exhibitions of Munich (1909), Brussels (1910), Buenos Aires (1910) and Barcelona (1911). Works by Manuel Benedito are kept in the Prado Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of Valencia, Santander, Asturias, Havana and Buenos Aires and the Hispanic Society of America (New York), among others, and in outstanding private collections such as the Jr. Sackar of Sidney.