Luis Ricardo FALERO (Spanish1851-1896) ✿

Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896) A classical beauty, Oil on Canvas (detail)

Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896) was a Spanish painter. He specialized in female and mythological and fantasy settings. Falero was born in Toledo and originally pursued a career in the Spanish Navy, but gave it up to his parent's bitter disappointment. He walked all the way to Paris, where he studied art, chemistry and mechanical engineering. The experiments that he had to conduct in the latter two were so dangerous, however, that he decided to focus on painting alone.After Paris, he studied in London, where he eventually settled.