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DON JOSE ALVAREZ (1768-1827)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 774 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DON JOSE See also:ALVAREZ (1768-1827)  , See also:Spanish sculptor, was See also:born at Priego, in the See also:province of See also:Cordova, in 1768 . His full name was Jose See also:Alvarez de Pereira y Cubero . Bred to his See also:father's See also:trade of a See also:stone-See also:mason, he devoted all his spare See also:time to See also:drawing and modelling . His See also:education in See also:art was due partly to the teaching of the See also:French sculptor Verdiguier at Cordova, and partly to lessons at See also:Madrid, where he attended the lectures of the See also:academy of See also:San- Fernando . In 1799 he obtained from See also:Charles IV. a See also:pension of 12,000 reals to enable him to visit See also:Paris and See also:Rome . In the former See also:city he executed in 1804 a statue of See also:Ganymede, which placed him at once in the front See also:rank of the sculptors of his time, and which is now in the See also:sculpture See also:gallery of the Prado . Shortly afterwards his pension was more than doubled, and he See also:left Paris for Rome, where he remained till within a See also:year of his See also:death . He had married in Paris See also:Elizabeth Bougel, by whom he had a son in 1805 . This son, known as See also:Don Jose Alvarez y Bougel, also distinguished himself as a sculptor and a painter, but he died at See also:Burgos before he had reached the See also:age of twenty-five, a little more than two years after his father's death in Madrid in 1827 . One of the most successful See also:works of the See also:elder Alvarez was a See also:group representing See also:Antilochus and See also:Memnon, which was commissioned in See also:marble (1818) by See also:Ferdinand VII., and secured for the artist the See also:appointment of See also:court-sculptor . It is now in the museum of Madrid . He also modelled a few portrait busts (Ferdinand VII., See also:Rossini, the duchess of See also:Alba), which are remarkable for their vigour and fidelity .

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