Ricardo Federico de Madrazo y Garreta was a Spanish painter from the Madrazo family of artists, best known for his Orientalist works. He was also the brother-in-law of the great Spanish Orientalist, Mariano Fortuny, who would be a major influence on both his life and work.
Portrait by Ramón Cilla [es] (1894)
Cecilia de Madrazo, painting by Frederico de Madrazo, 1869. Ricardo's sister, Cecilia married Ricardo's friend, the great Spanish painter, Maria Fortuny
Marià Fortuny's Studio, 1874
Rest Stop for an Arab Caravan, 1877
Marià Josep Maria Bernat Fortuny i Marsal, known more simply as Marià Fortuny or Mariano Fortuny, was the leading Spanish painter of his day, with an international reputation. His brief career encompassed works on a variety of subjects common in the art of the period, including the Romantic fascination with Orientalist themes, historicist genre painting, military painting of Spanish imperial expansion, as well as a prescient loosening of brush-stroke and color.
Self portrait by Marià Fortuny (1863–73)
Fortuny in 1867, by Federico de Madrazo
Marià Fortuny's Studio, a painting by his friend and brother-in-law, Ricardo de Madrazo
The Odalisque, 1861