Alejandro Ferrant y Fischermans

Alejandro Ferrant y Fischermans (born September 9, 1843 in Madrid , † January 20, 1917 there ) was a Spanish painter.

Ferant studied painting at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando with his uncle Luis Ferrant y Llausás . With a grant from the Spanish government, he went to Rome in 1874. There he studied at the Academia Española de Bellas Artes and made friends with artists such as Francisco Pradilla , Casto Plasencia , Jaime Morera , Baldomero Galofre and Manual Castellano . His first large history paintings, San Sebastián en la Cloaca Máxima , which had great success at the Academia de Roma exhibition in 1877 and received first prize at the 1878 exhibition, La Disputa del Sacramento and Desfile de las tropas francesas delante del pabellón español, were created in Rome en el Palacio del Trocadero (1879).

In 1880 Ferrant returned to Spain and entered the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando . He was also professor of painting at the Escuela Central de Artes y Oficios and from 1903 director of the Museo de Arte Moderno . In 1882 he received the gold medal at the Exposición Nacional for the painting l Cardenal Cisneros visitando las obras del hospital de Tavera . Ferrant also made decorative works, for example for the Church of San Francisco el Grande , the Palace of Infanta Isabel, the Ministry of Education (Alegoría de las Bellas Artes), the Provincial Parliament of Pamplona, the Palace of Justice in Barcelona and the Casino in Zaragoza.

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SURNAME	Ferrant y Fischermans, Alejandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish painter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 9, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH	Madrid
DATE OF DEATH	January 20, 1917
Place of death	Madrid