Pedro Ferrer Calatayud

PEDRO FERRER CALATAYUD (Valencia, 1860-1944)"In the garden".Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower left corner.Small tear in the lower central area of the work.Size: 56 x 89 cm; 73 x 103 cm (frame).Trained at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts, Pedro Ferrer was a painter, restorer, illustrator and choreographer. His painting belongs to the prolific marine school to which artists such as Sorolla, Monleón, Juste and Salvador Abril belonged. His splendid interpretation of the sea led him to exhibit his work at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid (1895), where he presented his painting "Salvamento de un náufrago" ("Rescue of a Shipwrecked Sailor"), which earned him the Cross of Isabella the Catholic. Thanks to this work, Pedro Ferrer was awarded the Gold Medal and Diploma of Honour at the Regional Exhibition in Valencia in 1909. After the Civil War, the Valencian artist directed the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia. Ferrer is considered to be one of the best representatives of seascapes, which he interpreted through a realism amalgamated with impressionism, but he also left room for commissioned works such as portraits, landscapes and regional themes. His work is represented in the Museo de Bellas Artes in Valencia.