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Ricardo Macarrón Jaime (1926–2004), was a Spanish painter and portraitist. He is known for his court paintings for European royalty and portraits of aristocracy, including four generations of the House of Bourbon, and Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg.

Early life

Ricardo Macarrón Jaime was born April 9, 1926, in Madrid, Spain. His father Juan Macarrón Despierto owned a workshop for art restorers and carvers.

Macarrón attended Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, studying under Joaquín Valverde Lasarte [es]. While he was a student he made his first portrait of artist Joaquín García Donaire in 1943. Macarrón won many art awards while he was a student. He met his future wife Alicia Iturrioz in college, where she also attended too. Together they had two daughters.

Career and late life

He had three marked periods of style in his paintings – from 1955 to 1960 he was working with a cubist influence; from 1960 to 1968 his work was darker and emphasized "disenchantment"; and in later life in the 1990s the work reflected his strong technical skills and techniques. Macarrón had painted portraits of three Queens, Sofia of Spain, Elizabeth II of England, Noor of Jordan. Also notable is his 1961 portrait of Carmen Cervera.

Macarrón died on May 14, 2004, in Riaza, Spain. He was cremated and has a memorial in Almudena cemetery in Madrid. After Macarróns death, Iturrioz wrote the memoir Mi Vida con Ricardo Macarrón (2014) about their shared life experiences.

His work is found in public museum collections, including the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, and Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer.

References

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7. "Macarron, Ricardo". Le Delarge – Le dictionnaire des arts plastiques modernes et contemporains (in French). Retrieved 2022-01-02.
8. Beyer, Andreas; Savoy, Bénédicte; Tegethoff, Wolf, eds. (2009). "Macarron, Ricardo". General Artist Lexicon - International Artist Database - Online: General Artist Lexicon Online / Artists of the World Online. Berlin, New York: KG Saur.
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10. "La noche en la que Tita Thyssen fue coronada 'Lady España': un vestido de Balmain, las joyas de su boda con Espartaco y un caballo regalado". Vanity Fair España (in European Spanish). Condé Nast. 2021-08-01. Retrieved 2022-01-02.

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