Saturday, July 13, 2019

The Lozano Album

At wonder | wander | world we love pouring through old prints and images of a history long lost to us today. Fine art that reignites our spirit and feeds our soul.

The Lozano Album consists of 60 illustrations depicting daily Filipino life in the 1800s by painter Jose Honorato Lozano.



Lozano (1821-1885) was a Filipino painter born in ManilaLozano was the son of a lighthouse keeper at Manila Bay. He grew up in Sampaloc, Manila outside the walled city of Intramuros

A folio of Lozano's watercolors surfaced in a 1995 episode of Antiques Roadshow (the UK edition) with appraiser Peter Nahum. 



The album had been commissioned by Emile Nyssens, and was sold at Christie's in 1995. In September 2016, an extremely rare set of 12 watercolors by Lozano, originally in the possession of a Spanish marquess, was offered at auction with a starting bid of ₱5 million. 

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