1885 was not a great year in Valencian history, being the year of the worst cholera epidemic, one of many, to decimate the population. And yet it was the fate of José Segrelles to be born that year on the 18th March in Albaida. Valencia’s most famous painter Joaquin Sorolla was also marked by cholera, having lost both parents in the outbreak 20 years earlier in 1865, and it was Sorolla who would be one of Segrelles’ teachers at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts, when he moved there at the tender age of nine to learn the craft, … Continue reading Segrelles: From Albaida to the Moon