Nestor Leynes

Nestor Garcia Leynes, Sr (February 26, 1922 – March 18, 2016) was a Filipino realist painter.

Leynes' parents owned several paintings, including some by the Filipino master painter Fabián Cueto de la Rosa, a distant relative of the family.

He graduated from the Arellano High School and entered the College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines.

His studies were cut short in his fourth year by the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in World War II.

[1] Two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he married Amalia Alcantara, a childhood neighbor and sweetheart.

Former first lady Imelda Marcos was so impressed by the work that she brought the entire collection to the Malacañan Palace for the viewing of her then guest of honor David Rockefeller.

[2] While American realism focused on banality, Leynes and other Filipino realists depict romantic scenes in painstaking detail.

He regularly paints a picture of Christ every Good Friday, a part of his panata (penance) during Lent.

[10][11][12] Although not representative of his work, his oil on canvas piece A Peasant's Funeral (1948) is on display at the National Museum of the Philippines.