José Gallel y Beltrán (1825- 1887) - Paesaggio

Gallel Beltrán, José. Valencia, 1825 – 1887. landscape 1861 rare Spanish painter José Gallel Beltrán Gallel Beltrán, José. Valencia, 4.XI.1825 – 6.III.1887. Painter, decorator and scenographer. Scenographer, he Painter, he Biography Born into a family of artisans, Gallel studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos. Portraitist, landscape painter and genre painter, he was also a decorator and scenographer. In his landscapes, he evolved from an academic approach, always inspired by nature, toward a more realistic interpretation. Among his numerous portraits, the portraits of writers José Bernat Baldoví and José de Orga stand out, painted in 1879 and 1882 respectively for the society Lo Rat-Penat. Gallel decorated buildings such as the San Vicente Ferrer Orphanage and the San Juan Bautista psychiatric institute, as well as private residences, such as Santiago García’s on Calle Almudín. According to the Baron of Alcahalí, he also painted in the houses of the Marquis of Campo, the Count of Parcent, the Marquis of San Juan and Salvador González, as well as in the churches of Carlet, Alfafar, Aldaya, Picasent, Luchente, Soneja, Almácera and, in Valencia, the Church of San Nicolás and the chapel of Our Lady of the Abandoned. In 1871 he restored the chapel of the Collegiate College and in 1878 he painted a monument for Holy Week in the parish church of Santa María in Alcoy. In 1881, Gallel painted three allegorical works for the ceiling of the Villanueva family shop on Calle Paz: the central canvas depicted the Three Graces, while the side ones depicted Mercury and Apelle. He participated in numerous exhibitions. In 1846 he received an honorable mention at the exhibition organized by the Economic Society of Friends of the Country; at the exhibition organized the following year by the same institution, he presented a large painting depicting Valencian costumes, and at the 1851 exhibition, three landscapes, in addition to some religious copies. In 1855 he exhibited an original oil painting, Historical Subject of Saint Vincent, a copy of Saint Vincent the Preacher and five original landscapes. At the Regional Exhibition of 1867 he received an honorable mention for one of his landscapes; a year later, he participated in the Zaragoza exhibition with a landscape and a genre scene depicting a couple of peasants in front of a country house. He obtained an honorable mention at the exhibition held during the July Fair of 1871 for the three works he presented: a landscape and two genre scenes, entitled A Masked Ball and An Old-Fashioned Courtship. He exhibited vases of flowers and landscapes at the 1875 Lycée exhibition; a portrait was shown at the 1877 exhibition on the occasion of Alfonso XII’s visit; and a painting entitled “A Family Gathering” was presented at the 1878 exhibition organized by the Scientific, Literary and Artistic Athenaeum. In 1882, at the Alameda Fair, he presented a small head of Saint Francis of Paola, a painting depicting a frock coat with musicians, a landscape and a night view of a street. At the parallel exhibition organized by the Fine Arts students at the Teatro Principal, he exhibited another head of Saint Francis. Gallel also exhibited a landscape at the charity exhibition set up in shop windows in 1879 to help the victims of the Murcia flood. Gallel was a prolific scenographer. In 1868 he collaborated with Antonio García and José Brel on the staging of Rafael Liern’s fantastic comedy, El laurel de plata, at the Princesa Theatre. Gallel painted three of the five scenographies that debuted in the show: those for the Palace of Wealth, the Abode of Joy and the Field of Grain. In 1873 he painted the scenographies for the zarzuela Sueños de oro, performed at the Teatro Principal, with José Brel, Antonio Cortina and Pedro Noguera. Among Gallel’s works are the View of a Village, the Apparition of the Three Roads, a scenography depicting a lake and the Beauty Cabinet. For La fiesta del hogar, staged in 1876 at the Teatro de Ruzafa, Gallel painted a Nativity Scene that included a wide view of an Oriental landscape. In 1877 he took the post of scenographer at the Teatro Principal, with the assistance of Pedro Noguera. A year later, he achieved great success with the scenographies for the zarzuela Sueños de oro (Dreams of Gold), in particular those for the Lake, the Palace of Wealth, the Palace of Beauty and the Final Apotheosis. In 1879 he staged the zarzuela La guerra santa (The Holy War) at the Teatro Apolo; among the scenographies, the Lake Baikal stood out. In the same year, he painted seven of the eight new scenographies for the zarzuela El salto del pasiego (The Jump of the Pasiego), which debuted at the Teatro Principal, while Ricardo Alós painted the remaining ones. In 1880 Gallel painted tempera portraits, mounted in medallions, of the musicians Barbieri, Gaztambide, Arrieta and Caballero for the ceiling of the Teatro de la Princesa. In that theater he staged works such as La guerra santa and El salto del pasiego, collaborating on the latter with Alós. Both scenographers collaborated on the zarzuela La abadía del Rosario, staged at the Teatro Apolo, where the View of the Bay of Martinique was particularly notable. Gallel and Alós, together with José Calvo Verdonces, decorated the magical comedy Los polvos de la madre Celestina at the Teatro Principal. Gallel, Alós and Brel joined forces to create a scenography for El rosal de la belleza by Liern at the Teatro de la Princesa. In 1883 Gallel painted the decorations and the curtain for the wings of the new Colón Theatre. He was an honorary member of the Society of Painters.

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