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Francisco
Llorens Díaz

1874−1948

Biography and information

Son of the couple composed by José Llorens Batista, a businessman of Catalan origin, and Paulina Díaz Villar, from La Coruña, he shared his father's home with two brothers older than him. He felt from an early age the love for drawing and although he began, by family decision, the career of Commerce in La Coruña, he entered the School of Arts and Crafts, where his teacher was Román Navarro García, who guided him conveniently giving him to know techniques and procedures, ideas and aesthetic formulas.
Llorens's early youthful works were in the field of social, realistic and mournful painting, which later gave way to portraiture; he also executed flowers and other decorative genres.
From 1892 he travels frequently and stays in Madrid, attending classes of the great landscape painter Carlos de Haes, who guides him in principle. In addition to his first experiences, and to those received here, he adds to his knowledge of the art of the great masters, in the Prado Museum, where he becomes a copyist. In 1899 he entered the competition for a scholarship at the Spanish Academy in Rome, where he spent four years.
He also lived in Bruges for a year, until 1906, when he returned to La Coruña and actively participated in the Galician cultural life, relating to the circles that promoted the recovery of the traditional spirit of the land. (Text extracted from: Luna, J. J., "Francisco Llorens": Luna, J. J., "Francisco Llorens", La Coruña: Fundacion Caixa Galicia, 1991, pp. 21-41).