ROMANACH 



LEOPOLDO ROMANACH 



Painter. 



Leopoldo Romanach was born in 1869 

 in Sierra Morena, Province of Santa Clara, 

 but was educated in Spain, whence he re- 

 turned as a youth, resolved to be a painter, 

 and began to paint without instruction. 



Sometime later the Provincial Assembly 

 of Santa Clara granted him a pension to 

 enable him to go to Italy to study. There 

 he remained five years and received much 

 instruction from the distinguished master, 

 Professor Filippi Prosperi, Director of the 

 Institute of Fine Arts of Rome. 



At the outbreak of the War of Independ- 

 ence in 1895 he lost his pension and went 

 then to the United States where he lived 

 by his brush until 1900 in which year he 

 returned to Havana. His return was sig- 

 nalized by an exhibition of his paintings 



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