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拍品专文
The family is depicted squatting around a low wooden table and sharing a traditional meal of soup and morisqueta (white rice boiled in water). Large earthenware jars probably containing water flank the table. For a similar watercolour by the artist, see Abalarte Subastas, Madrid, 9 July 2015, lot 1109 (part).
Lozano was born in Manila, the son of the lighthouse keeper at Manila Bay. He was active as a painter in the 1840s and was remarked on as 'a watercolourist without rival' by a local commentator Rafael Diaz Arenas in 1850. He produced many studies of local types and costumes, as well as Filipino landscapes and his celebrated letras y figuras, to supply the demand for souvenirs of exotic Manila for visitors to the islands.
Lozano was born in Manila, the son of the lighthouse keeper at Manila Bay. He was active as a painter in the 1840s and was remarked on as 'a watercolourist without rival' by a local commentator Rafael Diaz Arenas in 1850. He produced many studies of local types and costumes, as well as Filipino landscapes and his celebrated letras y figuras, to supply the demand for souvenirs of exotic Manila for visitors to the islands.