See also: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
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone-See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
mason, he devoted all his spare See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to See also:drawing and modelling
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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