Old painting Marine oil on canvas signed JOSÉ ORTÉGA

  
Oil on canvas Orientalist painter. Beautiful oil on canvas, measuring 55 cm in height by 75 cm in width, framed 66 X 88 cm. This painting was probably done in the south of France in Monaco, as indicated on the back of the canvas at the port of Fontvieille. Joseph Ortega was born in 1877 and died in Constantine in 1955. From 25 to 30 years old, he studied at the Fine Arts School of Algiers under the direction of Hippolyte Dubois.

He then went to Paris where he enrolled in the Fine Arts School and painted Parisian scenes and portraits. Back in Algiers, he became a student of Georges Roche and exhibited at the salon of the Algerian and Orientalist artists society, specializing in colorful landscapes. In 1911, he stayed in Bou-Saada with Maxime Noiré.

He became one of the founders of the independent artists society of North Africa in 1925. As a drawing and painting professor in Philippeville, he also painted many landscapes of southern Algeria.