PERSONAL INFORMATION

FULL NAME: Fernando Cueto Amorsolo

BIRTHDATE: May 30, 1892

BIRTHPLACE: Paco, Manila

PARENTS: Pedro Amorsolo

and

Bonifacia Amorsolo

GRADUATED AT: Art School of the Liceo de Manila

and

University of the Philippines

DIED: April 24, 1972

FAMILY BACKGROUND

FIRST WIFE: Salud Jorge with six children

SECOND WIFE: Maria del Carmen Zaragoza with eight children

 Born in May 30, 1892 in Paco, Manila
 Earn money in selling watercolour postcards
 First achievement in 1908 painted Leyendo el periodic took 2 nd place
 1909 -1914 Art School of the Liceo de Manila student
 While in Liceo, won 1st prize for his painting of a young man and woman
 Been in Madrid & New York City with the help Enrique Zobel de Ayala
 1920 – 1930 set up his own studio in Manila
 Stopped because of diabetes, cataracats, arthritis, headaches, dizziness and death of to
sons
 Cataracat operation at 70
 Two months confine in St Luke’s Hospital in Manila
 Died because of heart failure at the age of 79
 4 days after death, honoured as the 1st National Artist in Painting by Pres. Marcos
 Five of his children became painters