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    Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz. Photograph of the Painter (a. 1910)

    By the end of his life, Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz (1848-1921) had served as the Director of the Prado Museum, won numerous international awards, including the French Legion of Honor, and held the position of the Director of the Spanish Academy in Rome.

    He is best remembered for having taught the painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida in Rome, and for the painting Doña Juana La Loca (Joanna the Mad) that galvanized a new generation of history painters in Spain and toured several European nations as a masterpiece.

    Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz.

    Self-Portrait (1917). Oil on canvas.

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    • 4.5 BY 35.5CM. Madrid, Prado Museum.

    Pradilla was heavily influenced by Velázquez, Titian, El Greco and Ribera, all of whom are well represented in the Prado Collection. Even late in life, he regularly copied Old Master paintings in order to improve his own.

    This was accompanied by his lifelong dedication to the study of Greek and Roman