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Juan Manuel Blanes
Uruguayan painter (1830–1901)
Juan Manuel Blanes (June 8, 1830 – April 15, 1901) was a Uruguayan painter of the Realist school.
Life and work
Blanes was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1830.
He was raised by his mother, with whom he relocated to the countryside in his early teens. Blanes took an interest in drawing at this point, and shortly afterwards, was hired as an illustrator for a Montevideo news daily, El Defensor de la Independencia Americana.
Earning extra income with watercolors, he returned to his mother and, in 1854, established his first atelier.[1]
He married María Linari, and in 1855, the couple settled in Salto, where he worked as a portrait painter.
They relocated to Concepción del Uruguay (across the Uruguay River, in Argentina) in 1857, and Blanes was commissioned by Argentine President Justo José de Urquiza to complete a number of portraits, allegories and landscapes to grace his nearby estancia, the Palacio San José