Félix R.

Hidalgo
 Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla (February 21, 1855 – March 13,
1913) was a Filipino artist.
 He is known as an Impressionist portrait, landscape, and religious subject
painter.
 He is acknowledged as one of the greatest Filipino painters of the late 19th
century and is significant in Philippine history for having been an
acquaintance and inspiration for members of the Philippine reform
movement which included José Rizal, Marcelo del Pilar, Mariano Ponce,
and Graciano López Jaena, although he neither involved himself directly in
that movement nor later associate himself with the First Philippine
Republic under Emilio Aguinaldo.
 His winning the silver medal in the 1884 Madrid Exposition of Fine Arts,
along with the gold win of fellow Filipino painter Juan Luna, prompted a
celebration which was a major highlight in the memoirs of members of the
Philippine reform movement, with Rizal toasting to the two painters' good
health and citing their win as evidence that Filipinos and Spaniards were
equals.
 His Famous Paintings Are Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho
and La Barca de Aqueronte

Las Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho

 Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho or The Christian
Virgins Exposed to the Populace is a famous 1884 history
painting by Filipino painter.

 The painting is alternately known as The Christian Virgins Exposed to the

Rabble.

 The painting was a silver medalist (ninth silver medal award among forty-
five) during the 1884 Exposicion General de Bellas Artes
in Madrid, Spain, also known as the Madrid Exposition.

 Regarded as one of the national treasures of the Philippines, a copy of the

painting is part of the art collection of the Bangko Sentral ng
Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines). The original was destroyed in
 a fire at the University of Valladolid in Spain. From 2015 until 2020, the
painting was on a five-year loan to National Gallery Singapore as part of its
Southeast Asian art galleries.

La Barca de Aqueronte
  Translated in English as The Boat of Charon or Charon's Boat,
 Hidalgo finished La barca de Aqueronte in 1887 when he was thirty-four
years old. Hidalgo made charcoal studies of Charon that are representative of
the divine and nude Greco-Roman heroes molded in the Renaissance style.
  The work was a gold medalist during the Exposicion General de las
Filipinas (International Philippine Exposition) in Madrid.
 In 1889, an international jury made the painting a silver medalist during the
Paris Exposition, a distinct recognition that no other Filipino painter had
achieved at the major art arena in Paris.
  The painting also won other awards such as a diploma of honor from the
1891 Exposicion General de Bellas Artes in Barcelona, a gold medal prize
at the 1893 Madrid Exposicion Internacional de Bellas Artes during the
400th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Americas.