Gaietà Benavent

GAIETÀ BENAVENT ROCAMORA (Reus, Tarragona, 1834 - Barcelona, 1910).
"Port".
Oil on canvas.
Signed.
Presents faults.
Measurements: 86 x 154 cm; 102 x 170 cm (frame).
Formed in the School of Fine Arts of Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Martí Alsina. In the first stage of his career he devoted himself mainly to portraiture, later moving on to other genres, mainly landscape, still life and flower painting, producing a prolific body of work that is estimated at more than fifteen hundred compositions. He held several exhibitions and participated in contests and group exhibitions, winning several prizes. In the National Exhibition of 1864 he was awarded an honorable mention, and obtained a bronze medal in the Universal Exhibition of Philadelphia in 1876. He was also awarded in those of Zaragoza (1868); Barcelona (1871), Paris and Birmingham, among others. Among his most outstanding works are "Around Barcelona"; "Self-portrait", "Marina or moonlight impression in the port of Barcelona", "View from the mountain of Montjuic", "Puerta del Sol", "Portrait of the mother of General Prim", "Portrait of the actor García Parreño", "Old peasant by the door of a church" and "A young woman at the fountain".