Fernando Martínez Checa (1858-1933) - Camino de la sierra





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Camino de la sierra, an original watercolor landscape by Fernando Martínez Checa (1858–1933), created in 1900–1910 in Spain, hand-signed, with frame, measuring 32 × 24.5 cm.
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Fernando Martínez Checa (Requena, Valencia, 1858 - Baeza, Jaén 1933) - Road to the Sierra.
Watercolor.
Signed and located in the lower corners.
Dimensions: 32 x 24.5 cm.
Fernando Martínez Checa (Requena (Valencia), 1858- Baeza (Jaén) 1933) was a Spanish painter and professor.
He was a professor of drawing at the bachillerato institutes of Huelva, where he remained until 1907.
In Baeza he founded in 1909 the School of Arts and Industries of Requena, intended for the instruction of workers.
Specialized in oil painting and in watercolor of floral still lifes and landscapes, in the Provincial Museum of Huelva one of his works is exhibited: Floating Baths in the Huelva Estuary (1897).
Other works by him are in the Museum of Fine Arts of Córdoba, where a wash on paper titled The Hermitages of Córdoba is preserved, and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Fuente en el camino, oil, with a dedication to the Marchioness of Majeras, 1884).
Fernando Martínez Checa (Requena, Valencia, 1858 - Baeza, Jaén 1933) - Road to the Sierra.
Watercolor.
Signed and located in the lower corners.
Dimensions: 32 x 24.5 cm.
Fernando Martínez Checa (Requena (Valencia), 1858- Baeza (Jaén) 1933) was a Spanish painter and professor.
He was a professor of drawing at the bachillerato institutes of Huelva, where he remained until 1907.
In Baeza he founded in 1909 the School of Arts and Industries of Requena, intended for the instruction of workers.
Specialized in oil painting and in watercolor of floral still lifes and landscapes, in the Provincial Museum of Huelva one of his works is exhibited: Floating Baths in the Huelva Estuary (1897).
Other works by him are in the Museum of Fine Arts of Córdoba, where a wash on paper titled The Hermitages of Córdoba is preserved, and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Fuente en el camino, oil, with a dedication to the Marchioness of Majeras, 1884).

