Tomás Moragas y Torras

TOMÁS MORAGAS Y TORRAS (Girona, 1837 - Barcelona, 1906).
"Vessels".
Oil on panel.
Measurements: 20 x 28 cm; 41 x 48 cm (frame).

Tomás Moragas moved in his youth to Barcelona, where he began his training working in the workshop of Jose Pomar LLaró, who introduced him to the technique of engraving and goldsmithing. Later he continued his studies at the Escuela de La Lonja, in Barcelona, where he had as teachers Claudio Lorenzale and Pablo Milá Fontanals and met Jose Tapiró Y Baró and Mariano Fortuny. He then moved to Rome, where he shared a studio with Mariano Fortuny. After almost a decade in the Italian capital he went to Paris in 1866, where he settled until his definitive return to Barcelona in 1876. In Spain, his teaching work stood out, as founder of the School of Watercolorists and professor at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona and at the Academy of Arts and Crafts of Vilanova i la Geltrú, as well as his role as artistic advisor at the Universal Exposition of Barcelona in 1888. His works are preserved in the Prado Museum, the MACBA, the National Museum of Art of Catalonia and the Museum of History of the City of Barcelona, among many others. His painting stands out for an aesthetic style following in a certain way the aesthetics of Fortuny, with a thematic of mansions, he practiced a commercial painting of great acceptance, with representations of orientalist character among which the work of the Museum of Modern Art of Barcelona stands out.