Horacio Lengo

HORACIO LENGO MARTÍNEZ (Torremolinos, 1838-Madrid, 1890).
"Still life".
Oil on ceramic.
Presents faults.
Signed in the superior zone.
Measurements: 50,5 x 6 cm.
Horacio Lengo was an outstanding author of the nineteenth-century Malaga painting. He knew how to respond to the eclectic and decorative taste of the national panorama, with a precious and laborious painting. In his eagerness to broaden the knowledge acquired in Cadiz with Martinez del Rincon, Lengo returned to Malaga, integrating himself into the cultural environment of Malaga and participating in two exhibitions: National Fine Arts, 1871 and Liceo de Malaga, 1872. But he feels that he needs to advance in the knowledge of painting. To do so, and following the custom of many Spanish painters, Lengo looked outside Spain for the teaching he needed, finding it in Paris and in the studio of the painter Léon Bonnat. After his apprenticeship and once back in Malaga, he resumes his personal and artistic life, participating in the exhibition organized by the City Council on the occasion of the coming of King Alfonso XII to the city. Finally he moved to Madrid with his family, where he dedicated himself to painting, exhibiting and, above all, selling his paintings among the nobility and the high bourgeoisie collectors.