Luis Paret y Alcázar (1746-1799)

• Was a Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period.
• He was born in Madrid and was first trained with Antonio González Velázquez.
• He attended the Academia Real de San Fernando in Madrid, where he won a second prize in a painting contest in 1760, and first prize in 1766.
• He entered the studio of the French painter Charles de la Traverse.
• Unfortunately upon returning to Madrid, despite becoming a teacher in the Academia de San Fernando at age 33 years, he mainly received royal commissions to paint and engrave vistas of ports, the Spanish equivalent of vedute.
• For some years, he was banished to Puerto Rico, where he trained the painter Jose Campeche.
• He also painted flowers in still life and genre paintings called bambochadas. 
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Luis Paret y Alcázar, Self-portrait of the artist in his studio, 1777.
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