Cosme San Martín

Cosme San Martín Lagunas (born September 27, 1849 in Valparaíso , † April 1, 1906 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean painter.

Martín studied from 1864 to 1869 at the Escuela de Bellas Artes with Alejandro Ciccarelli , Ernst Kirchbach and Juan Mochi . His classmates included Pedro Lira Rencoret , Onofre Jarpa Labra , Pedro León Carmona , Pascual Ortega Portales , Alberto Orrego Luco and José Mercedes Ortega . He also played first viola in the orchestra of the Teatro Municipal de Santiago . At the age of 19 he began teaching at the Academia de Bellas Artes .

In 1875 he won a scholarship for a study visit to Europe with his painting Jesús y María Magdalena . He traveled to Paris, continued his training there with Juan Antonio González and had several exhibitions in the city, including the Salon of the Société des artistes français .

From 1875 until his death he was professor of drawing and lithography at the Academia de Pintura and shaped a whole generation of young Chilean artists such as Enrique Lynch , Guillermo Córdova , Manuel Thomson , Alberto Valenzuela Llanos , Pablo Burchard Eggeling , José Backhaus , Albina Elguín , Juan Harris , Marcial Plaza Ferrand , Arturo Gordon , Carlos Alegría and Fernando Thauby . From 1886 he succeeded Mochi as director of the Academia de Bellas Artes .

Works by San Martín can be found in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (including Amor Maternal , 1877; La Lectura , 1874; El Niño de la Chaqueta Blanca , Pescador en Cartagena , 1898 and Sansón traicionado por Dalila ), the Museo Histórico Nacional Santiago and the Pinacoteca of the Universidad de Concepción . The Sociedad Nacional de Bellas Artes organized a retrospective of his works in 1936.

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SURNAME	San Martín, Cosme
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	San Martín Lagunas, Cosme (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean painter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Valparaíso
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 1906
Place of death	Santiago de Chile