Francisco Domingo
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Francisco Domingo Marqués (Valencia, 1842-Madrid, 1920). Spanish painter. He studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia, in the workshop of Rafael Montesinos and at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. In 1864 he obtained a special honorary mention in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts for the painting Los moriscos valencianos pidiendo protección al beato Juan de Ribera. In 1866 he was awarded a third medal at the National Exhibition for the painting Un lance en el siglo XVII, and the following year with a gold medal for the same work at the Regional Valencian, which gave him a pension to Rome in 1868. The previous year he had painted Interior del estudio de Muñoz Degrain in Valencia, which is treasured by the Prado Museum, in which the painter is portrayed reclining on a sofa. In Rome he attended the workshop of Eduardo Rosales and became acquainted with Mariano Fortuny, whose posthumous portrait he painted in 1884. His first work as a scholarship holder, El último día de Sagunto, was sent to the Regional Exhibition of Valencia in 1869 and to the National Exhibition in 1871, together with the painting Santa Clara, which won the first medal. His second work, Portrait of Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, was finished in Valencia, in his famous studio of La Gallera, which became the center of Valencian artistic life. For a year he was a professor at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos, having the Benlliure brothers as disciples. In 1871, when he did not return to Rome, the Diputación withdrew his pension. It was then when he settled in Madrid, where he made decorations in the palaces of Portugalete and Fernán Núñez. In 1875 he moved to Paris, devoting himself almost exclusively to anecdotal paintings of exquisite execution, such as Un alto en la montería, of 1901. From that period is the second Self-Portrait in the Prado Museum, dated 1884; the first, also in the Prado, is dated 1865. In 1914, on the occasion of the First World War, he returned to Spain, settled in Madrid and obtained official recognition. He joined the Academy of Fine Arts in 1917 and was the subject of a public tribute in Valencia in 1918.