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Juan Rodríguez Botas
 Juan Rodríguez Botas Painter from Tenerife
Juan Rodriguez Botas (1880 - 1917) was the first impressionist painter of the Islands, and his paintings can be seen in the Santa Cruz Municipal Museum. He followed in the footsteps of Valentin Sanz, but using an impressionist style.
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Luis de la Cruz y Ríos
 Luis de la Cruz y Ríos Painter from Tenerife
In 1776, Luis de la Cruz y Rios was born in Puerto de la Cruz. He was King Ferdinand VII's court painter and an excellent miniaturist. He won great prestige at court, where he was known as El Canario. Some of his paintings can be seen in the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia, in Puerto de la Cruz.
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Mariano de Cossío
 Mariano de Cossío Painter from Tenerife
Local expressionist artists include Mariano de Cossio (1890 - 1960). Some of his al frescoes are conserved in the Church of Santo Domingo, in La Laguna. A master of water colours to the point of creating his own school, was Francisco Bonnin Guerin (Sta. Cruz de Tenefie, 1874 - 1963), whose works of art include many...
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Óscar Domínguez
 Óscar Domínguez Painter from Tenerife
One of the most famous of all Canary Island painters was undoubtedly Oscar Dominguez (La Laguna, 1906 . Paris, 1957), a surrealist who has left a large and highly personal collection of works.
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Pedro González
 Pedro González Painter from Tenerife
Among current artists it is worth mentioning Pedro González (San Cristóbal de La Laguna 1927): a painter who is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts.
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Valentín Sanz
 Valentín Sanz Painter from Tenerife
Valentin Sanz, born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1849, was the first landscape painter of the Canary Islands. Works of his, like Paisaje de La Laguna, can be seen in the Santa Cruz Municipal Museum of Fine Arts. The close of the 19th century saw Realism and Impressionism cohabiting with strains of Romanticism that...
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