José Tomás Errázuriz

José Tomás Errázuriz Urmeneta (November, 1856 – 1 April, 1927) was a Chilean landscape painter and diplomat. [1]

José Tomás Errázuriz Urmeneta
Photograph from before 1919
BornNovember, 1856 (2021-11-06UTC18:56)
Santiago
DiedApril 1, 1927 (1927-05) (aged −94)
near London

Biography

He was born in Santiago, the son of Maximiano Errázuriz Valdivieso and of Amalia Urmeneta Quiroga. He studied painting at the Academia de Pintura de Santiago, where he was a student of Ernesto Kirchbach and later juggled his diplomatic work in Paris with art classes by Humbert Giroez. He married Eugenia Huici, one of the most beautiful women of her age, who was to become a patron of modernism of the 20th Century and noted interior designer, and who was a decisive influence in his work. She soon convinced him to move to Paris in 1882, where his brother-in-law Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña was the Chilean consul.[2]

Around 1900 the Errázurizes relocated to London. José Tomás Errázuriz fell sick with tuberculosis, spent much time in Switzerland, and eventually he and his wife became estranged. Nonetheless during this stay, he acquired for his art most of the characteristics of English painting, even though he was also a strong admirer of the French landscape tradition and painted many times the coast of Normandy, where he lived for long periods of time. A sharp observer of nature, he painted views and scenes of the European countryside full of light and color. Errázuriz never adhered to the impressionist movement of the time, even though he was a close friend and admirer of realist painters such as Giovanni Boldini and John Singer Sargent. He always gave a principal and very strict preponderance to the drawing and the composition in his work. Errázuriz was never interested in signing or selling his work, and in 1926 sent most of his paintings to Chile to be auctioned off for charity.

Selected paintings
  • Portrait of his brother Rafael
  • Seagulls on the River Thames
  • Peasant Woman Resting
  • Anguish

See also

References
  1. Biography of José Tomás Errázuriz Urmeneta @ MCN.
  2. Biography of José Tomás Errázuriz Urmeneta @ the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA)
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