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Antonio Herrera Toro

Antonio Herrera Toro (1857 - 1914) was active/lived in Venezuela, France.  Antonio Toro is known for Painting of portraits, seaside scenes, religious figure, still life.

Antonio Herrera Toro

He was born in Valencia, Carabobo, and began his artistic studies in 1869, under the tutelage of Martín Tovar y Tovar. Five years later, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Caracas, where he studied with José Manuel Maucó [es] and Miguel Navarro Cañizares.

In 1875, he received a government scholarship that allowed him to study in Paris and Rome. He returned in 1881, with sketches of the Assumption of the Virgin, commissioned by José Antonio Ponte (1832–1883), the Archbishop of Caracas,  that he used for murals at Caracas Cathedral, painted with the assistance of Cristóbal Rojas. 

In 1883, he portrayed the final moments of Simón Bolívar, to commemorate the centennial of Bolívar's birth. The following year, he travelled to Peru on behalf of Tovar, making sketches at the sites of the battles of Junín and Ayacucho for paintings that Tovar had been commissioned to create for the Palacio Federal Legislativo. As it turned out, Herrera   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2253 characters.]  Artist bio

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