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{{Short description|Spanish painter and member of prominent Alcazar family of Spain}}
[[Image:Luis Paret y Alcázar - Autorretrato vestido de azul.jpg|thumb|230 px|Self portrait of Luis Paret y Alcázar (1779)]]
'''Luis Paret y Alcázar''' (11 February 1746 – 14 February 1799) was a Spanish painter of the late-[[Baroque]] or [[Rococo]] period.
==Biography==
He was born in [[Madrid]] he first trained with [[Antonio González Velázquez]] and attended the [[Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando|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]], who worked for [[Pierre Paul d'Ossun]], the ambassador of France in Spain. Unfortunately upon returning to Madrid, despite becoming a teacher in the [[Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando|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]], and also of planned works of construction. 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'' for their focus on the customs of the underclasses.
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Luis Paret y Alcázar - The Shop - Google Art Project.jpg|''The Shop of anticuarian Geniani'' (1772)<br/>Museo Lázaro Galdiano
(Castres) Paret y Alcazar Luis - La Lettre - Musée Goya.jpg|''La carta'' (1772)<br/>[[Goya Museum]]
Luis Paret y Alcázar - La Puerta del Sol en Madrid.jpg|''The Puerta del Sol in Madrid'' (1773)<br/>Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba
Carlos III comiendo ante su corte.jpg|''[[Charles III of Spain|Charles III]] Dining before the Court'' (c. 1775)<br/>Museo del Prado
Luis Paret - Circunspección de Diógenes - Google Art Project.jpg|''Circumspection of [[Diogenes]]'' (1780)<br />Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Luis Paret - View of El Arenal in Bilbao - Google Art Project.jpg|''View of El Arenal in [[Bilbao]]'' (1783-84)<br/>Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
Jura de Fernando VII como Príncipe de Asturias.jpg|''Jura de [[Ferdinand VII of Spain|Fernando VII]] como Príncipe de Asturias'' (1791)<br/>Museo del Prado
</gallery>
==References==
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*{{cite book| first=Pedro de| last=Madrazo| year=1872| title=Catálogo Descriptivo e Histórico del Museo del Prado de Madrid (Parte Primera: Escuelas Italianas y Españolas| pages= [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Tu8HAAAAQAAJ/page/n573 513]–514| publisher=M. Rivadeneyra|location=Calle del Duque de Osuna #3; Original from Oxford University, Digitized May 1, 2007|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Tu8HAAAAQAAJ| quote=Catalogo Prado Madrazo.}}
* [https://www.delamano.eu/artist/luis-paret-y-alcazar/ Scholarly articles] about Luis Paret y Alcázar both in web and [https://www.delamano.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/9-PARET.pdf PDF] @ the [https://www.delamano.eu/ Spanish Old Masters Gallery]
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[[Category:1746 births]]
[[Category:1799 deaths]]
[[Category:Painters from Madrid]]
[[Category:18th-century Spanish painters]]
[[Category:18th-century Spanish male artists]]
[[Category:Spanish male painters]]
[[Category:Spanish Baroque painters]]
[[Category:Spanish genre painters]]