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Last Name Brambila
Given Name Fernando
alt. Names F. B. ; F. Brambilla / Brombilla ;
Marriage Josefa Tami in 1799, daughter of former royal servant Pablo Tami ;
Children 1 daughter, Antonia (1802-)
Year born 1763 in Guerra / Cassano d'Adda, Lombardy, Italy
Year died 1834
Place of death Madrid, Spain
Father's occupation Francisco Ferrari
Relatives Antonia (mother) ; 3 siblings: José, Domingo, and María ;
Education painting and architecture in Accademia di Belle Arti in Brera, Milan ;
Country of Activity Spain
Worked for explorer Alessandro Malaspina ; Felipe Bauzá ; Félix Azara: Voyages dans l'Amerique Meridonale (1809) ;
Patronage King Carlos III ; court painter/architect for Spanish King Fernando VII since 1798; Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Spanish Navy
Collaborators artists & draughtsmn ->José de Pozo ; ->Juan Ravenet, Felipe Bauzá, ->José Cardero, ->Tómas de Saria, ->José Gutíerez, ->Francisco Lindo, ->Francisco Pulgar
Techniques architectural, geographical, and topographical painting, gouache, watercolour, oil, drawing, pencil, and engraving ;
Sample(s) www.google.de/search?q=Fernando+Brambila ; http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/viewArticle/12/43 fig.25 ;
Archival sources Museo Naval de Madrid, Archivo del Palacio Real de Madrid ;
Published sources AKL13 1996:575; ThB4 1910:521; es.wiki; Serrano 1982: v1,ch6; Bleichmar 2012: 20, 87; Puig-Samper 2012; Malaspina Expedition 1789-94-Journal of the Malaspina expedition, London 2001-4, vols.1: xlvi,lx, 221; 2: 60, 168, 261, 277, 313, 320-2; 3: 12,68,82,106,133,248,336f. ;
other Milan. land/cityscape painter on Malaspina Expedition 1791-4; China, Philippines, Australia. Real Orden 1798. taught perspective at Academia 1814; later active in Toledo 1801, Zaragoza 1808, Cadiz 1811-14; since 1815 landscape academician.
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