A Visit to Madrid's Sorolla Museum

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla, Professor Stephen Drake-Jones takes Frank Smith on a tour of the museum in Madrid which bears the artist's name. This, one of the lesser known museums in the Spanish capital, used to be the Sorolla family home but it was bequeathed to the Spanish state when the artist died in 1932. The Museo Sorolla has a website featuring many of the artist's paintings at: http://museosorolla.mcu.es/ . For his part, Stephen Drake-Jones is Chairman of The Wellington Society of Madrid, whose website you can visit at: http://wellsoc.org/ (13/09/13).