Manuel de la Rosa

MANUEL DE LA ROSA ( Seville, 1860- 1924).
Untitled.
Oil on canvas.
Presents restorations.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 81 x 66 cm.
Manuel de la Rosa Sampedro was a Spanish painter and teacher. Coming from a humble family, he showed from a young age a great inclination for drawing and painting, although economic difficulties prevented him from starting a formal artistic training in his family environment. For this reason, he moved to Seville, where he entered the School of Fine Arts and trained under the direction of Eduardo Cano, completing his academic studies at the age of twenty.
Specializing in flower painting, he also developed a varied production that included landscapes, still lifes and figure scenes. His work was recognized in various national exhibitions: in Cadiz he won a medal in 1885 with Una andaluza and later a gold medal in 1887 with his flower paintings; that same year, at the Madrid Exposition, he received a diploma of honor for his floral paintings.
Throughout his life he lived mainly in Seville, where he developed his career with limited resources and without the possibility of extensive travel. He died on November 10, 1924, leaving a work linked to naturalism and the Andalusian pictorial tradition of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.