Francisco Llorens Díaz

Francisco Llorens Díaz (10 April 1874, La Coruña - 11 February 1948, Madrid) was a Spanish-Galician painter; best known for still-lifes and landscapes.

While obtaining a commercial education, he began taking classes in drawing at the School of Arts and Crafts in La Coruña, where his teacher was the military artist, Román Navarro [es].

[1] Thanks to a grant, he was able to attend the Spanish Academy in Rome, as well as traveling to Belgium and the Netherlands, together with a group of his fellow students.

[2] Over the next two decades, he participated in numerous exhibitions; notably a showing in 1917 at the Second Exposition of Galician Art and, that same year, at the Galerías Layetanas [es] in Barcelona, jointly with his friend, Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor.

[2] During the Spanish Civil War, he remained in Madrid until 1938, when he and his daughters fled to Valencia with the Republican army.