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| Antonio Tomasich y Haro (1815–1891) | ||||||||||
| A miniature portrait painter, Tomasich was born in Almería to a Venetian father and a Spanish mother. His family moved from Almería to Madrid after 1819, and then to Paris by the end of 1828. The family returned to Spain due to his father's support of Carlism, and father and son enlisted in the Carlist army. Tomasich was wounded during the First Carlist War. At the end of the war in 1840, the family was exiled to France, until they were granted an amnesty in 1847. During this tumultuous period, it is not known how many works Tomasich may have produced. He received some training in painting, particularly with miniatures, at Paris under François Edouard Picot. He soon began to enjoy success as a very skilled miniaturist, receiving numerous commissions from the nobility in Paris and London. He travelled to Mexico in 1846, remaining there until 1855, and producing many miniatures for exhibition at the Academy of San Carlos from 1850. From Mexico, he travelled to Cuba, and was back in Madrid in 1862, where he presented portraits at the fourth National Exhibition of Fine Arts and received an honourable mention. Tomasich participated at the same exhibition in 1871 and 1876, and was awarded third and second prizes respectively. He also presented miniatures at the Universal Exhibition at Paris in 1878. He was appointed royal miniaturist in 1864 by Queen Isabel II. Tomasich is considered the most important Spanish miniaturist of the nineteenth century. He died in Madrid. | ||||||||||
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