Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida  (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a Valencian Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes.

MARINA 

Sorolla is shown as a realist painter, strongly influenced by marine painters of Valencia. 

 LOS GUITARRISTAS, COSTUMBRES VALENCIANAS
In 1889, looking for easy sales. He remains a realist.

BIARRITZ  1906.  Mauves and violets appear on his palette and  becomes elegant, perhaps influenced by the refined atmosphere of Biarritz.