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The Painter Maximino Peña

Salduero, Pinares, Soria

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The Painter Maximino Peña

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Maximino Peña Muñoz, born in Salduero on 29 May 1863 and who died in Madrid in 1940, was a painter especially gifted in pastel, with an extensive body of work of sketches, landscapes and scenes of everyday life. Trained in Madrid, he settled in Rome in 1885 alongside painters such as Sorolla, Benlliure and Moreno Carbonero, and took part in nineteen National Exhibitions of Fine Arts, where he won several medals, among them a second-class medal in 1895 for El bocadillo. He took part in the decoration of the basilica of San Francisco el Grande and opened a drawing studio in Madrid that his descendants later expanded as the Academia Peña. He was made a Knight of the Order of Charles III; streets bear his name in Soria, Salduero, Almazán and Madrid, and in Salduero a house-museum dedicated to him is preserved.

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