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Short description: Spanish painter (1854–1929)


Victoriano Balasanz Sánchez (23 March 1854 — 27 October 1929) was a Spanish painter.

Biography

Posthumous portrait of Joaquín Costa, 1913

Balasanz was born on 23 March 1854 in Castiliscar, although he was primarily circumscribed to Zaragoza.[1] One of his teachers at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Zaragoza was Eduardo López del Plano (es),[2] also studying at the Escuela Especial de Madrid.[3] He cultivated history painting in a "rather cold and awkward" manner, as described by Federico Torralba Soriano (es),[4] and gained some reputation.[5] Like Plano, he became a pensioner[2] and was in correspondence with Zenón Trigo when there were difficulties with the Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza (es).[6] Related to spiritism,[7] he died on 27 October 1929 in Montevideo,[8] having emigrated to South America in old age.[9]

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