Guillermo Gómez Gil

GUILLERMO GÓMEZ GIL (Málaga, 1862 - Cádiz, 1942)
"Marina Malagueña".
Oil on canvas.
Signed.
Measurements: 69 x 59,5 cm; 79 x 66 cm (frame).
Gómez Gil began his training in Malaga, where his first teacher was Emilio Ocón y Rivas, and later continued his studies as a disciple of Federico Ferrándiz and Antonio Muñoz Degrain. He specialized in painting landscapes, especially seascapes, paying special attention to lighting effects. In 1892 he submitted six landscape paintings to the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid, three of them of the port of Malaga and two entitled "A squall" and "Effect of the sun". With marine themes he won a third medal at the National Exhibition of 1897, with an oil painting entitled "Efecto de luna". In 1901 he won a second medal with a work of the same title, and repeated the award in 1906 with "Marina" and "Playas de Málaga". In 1910 he became a professor at the School of Arts and Industries of Seville, living for long periods in Cadiz. A painter of refined technique and great sensitivity, he left for posterity numerous seascapes that are models within his genre, standing out especially in the representation of the reflection of the sun and the moon on the surface of the sea. Guillermo Gómez Gil is represented in the Museo del Prado, the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, the Museo del Patrimonio Municipal de Málaga, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, the Diputación Provincial de Zamora and the Museo de San Telmo in San Sebastián.