Enrique Lynch del Solar

Enrique Lynch del Solar[1] (*1863 in Quillota, Chile +1936 in Santiago de Chile) was a painter of portraits, and ocean landscapes, a pioneer of the Chilean Modernist art movement.

He studied painting in Paris, France at the École des Beaux-Arts with Diogène Maillart.

Enrique enjoyed a comfortable childhood among his 6 siblings, they belonged to the Chilean upper class of Santiago; his father Luis Alfredo Lynch Solo de Zaldívar was a military attache and career diplomat, and his mother Julia del Solar Cañas was an elegant lady from a prosperous Chilean family.

In his personal life, Enrique had 2 marriage engagements: first with the young Argentine art student Romualda Barrios the daughter of a winemaker from La Rioja, they had one son Nicolás, their union did not last long and ended once Enrique moved to study in France; upon graduation he returned to Chile and married Ana Waltemath the daughter of a wealthy German-Chilean family, they had a son named Luis Patricio.

[4] Following his father Luis Alfredo Lynch Solo de Zaldívar, during his diplomatic posting to France, Enrique took his first year of art training at the French artist Diogène Maillart studio in Paris.