Serafín Avendaño

Serafín Xoaquín Avendaño Martínez (12 October 1838 – 23 August 1916) was a Galician landscape and genre painter who spent many years living in Italy.

[1] In 1858, he won a silver medal at the Exposición de Galiza for his watercolor "A miña tristura" (My Sadness).

Although initially influenced by the landscape style of the Belgian-born painter Carlos de Haes, he eventually acquired a brighter palette.

Thanks to his family's relative wealth, he was able to travel extensively during the 1860s; visiting the United States (where he painted Niagara Falls), England, France and Switzerland.

[2] Most of his time in Italy was spent in and around Genoa, where he became associated with the "Scuola di Rivara [it]", a local group of landscape painters.