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Biography
Spanish painter, son of the painter Mariano Maella who was his first teacher.
Marianos salvador maella biography of alberta
He moved to Madrid, where he studied sculpture with Felipe de Castro in Madrid who introduced the Neoclassical taste to the Hispanic sculpture. In 1752, he enters the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, where he is in the service of Antonio González Velázquez, the painting teacher of the institution.
This relationship will lead the marriage with his daughter, Maria González Velázquez some years later, in 1767. In 1757 he made a trip to America, then in the beginning of 1758 he went to Rome.
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At about 1764 he returned to Madrid and started a professional career.
Later he became painter of the chamber to the king and director general of the Academy of San Fernando. Along with Bayeu in 1775 he was commissioned to repaint and restore the damaged canvases by Juan de Borgoña in the cloister of the cathedral of Toledo.
As an engraver, he illustrated the vignettes published with the wor