Vicente Palmaroli [SEP] place of death
Vicente Palmaroli
Vicente Palmaroli González (5 September 1834 – 25 January 1896) was a Spanish portrait and genre painter.
Biography.
He was born in Zarzalejo, the son of Gaetano Palmaroli, an Italian painter and lithographer, who was his first teacher. After his father's death in 1853, he took over his official position at the royal art collections. He requested leave in 1857 to go to Rome and complete his education, using some surplus money from the collection fund. While there, he joined a
de Madrazo at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. In 1857, he won a scholarship to study in Rome, together with Eduardo Rosales, Vicente Palmaroli and Dióscoro Puebla. After four years there, he won a Gold Medal at the first National Exposition of Florence for his painting "Calpurnia's Dream", which took second place at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts of Spain in 1862. Queen Isabel II bought the painting and his scholarship was extended for three years.
He was married in Rome,