BiographyJoaquín Sorolla was a Spanish painter celebrated for his luminous, sun-drenched depictions of Mediterranean beach scenes, portraits, and regional Spanish life, rendered with brilliantly gestural brushwork that captured the effects of light on water, skin, and cloth. Often described as the master of light, he was enormously successful during his lifetime, receiving international acclaim and major commissions including a monumental series of regional panoramas for the Hispanic Society of America in New York. He remains the most important Spanish painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
