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Last Name Albán
Given Name Vicente
alt. Names V. A. ; Vicente / Vincente Alban / Albán ;
Marriage
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Year born 1750 c.
Year died 1783 fl.
Place of death
Father's occupation
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Education
Country of Activity Ecuador
Worked for José Celestino Mutis (1732-1808); Cuadros de Mestizaje (miscegenation paintings, a series of six unsigned paintings showing flowers, plants, fruits, animals & people from Spanish Americas);
Patronage Spanish Court, Madrid Cabinet of Natural Curiosities
Collaborators
Techniques ethnographic & geographic painting
Sample(s) www.britannica.com/biography/Vicente-Alban ; www.blouinartinfo.com/artists/8105-vicente-alban
Archival sources http://pueblosoriginarios.com/recursos/colecciones/alban/alban.html
Published sources Daniela Bleichmar: Training the naturalists's eye, in C- Grassen (ed.) Skilled Visions, Oxford 2010: 166-190, esp. 180-4; Bleichmar (2012): 162-7;
other active in Quito, today Ecuador; see also https://unframed.lacma.org/2015/02/04/restoring-new-vicente-alban
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