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Title
Self Portrait
Artist
Rafael Tejeo
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
RAFAEL TEJEO DÍAZ
Born: 1798 Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia – Died: Madrid, 1856
Self-Portrait, aged twenty, holding a chalk stylus
Oil on canvas,
71 by 56 cms; 28 by 22 inches
Signed and dated lower right on the table ledge: Rafael Texeo Fct. 1818
Provenance:
Private collection, Los Angeles
Private collection, London
Literature:
Martin Páez Burruezo, Rafael Tegeo 1798-1856, Del Tema Clásico Al Retrato Romntico, December 2014, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa María de la Arrixaca, pg.5
The present painting is the only known self-portrait of the Artist.
Tejeo began his studies with the Sociedad de Amigos del País in Murcia under the direction of Santiago Baglieto and later moved to Madrid, where he continued to study under José Aparicio and at the Real Academia de San Fernando under the patronage of the Marqués de San Mamés.
In 1824 Tejeo received a grant to study in Rome and he remained there for three years working under Pietro Benvenuti and Vicenzo Camuzi both of whom were influenced by the later work of David. On his return to Spain he exhibited at the Real Academia de San Fernando, becoming an Academician in 1828. He rose to Assistant Director in 1839 and Director in 1842 and was appointed Court Painter to Isabella II.
Tejeo became well known as a portraitist, painting in a late Neoclassical style ultimately deriving from David and his students with a hint of the oncoming Romantic movement that was to become more apparent in his later works. His earlier career, however, had seen a wide range of subjects from mythology and religion including The Fall of Phaeton for the Palacio Real in Madrid.
His work is represented in many museums including the Prado.
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