19th-20th Century Spanish

After taking art classes in Orihuela, in 1856 Agrasot won a scholarship from the Provincial Council of Alicante to continue his development at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia, where he was a pupil of Francisco Martínez Yago.

Thanks to a stipend he received from the Provincial Council of Alicante, he was able to travel to Rome, where he became acquainted with the Catalan painters working within the who were also in Rome at the same time and had a big influence on his beginnings. Nevertheless, his relationship with Eduardo Rosales and Mariano Fortuny, with whom he formed a strong friendship, proved to be the decisive influence on his future style and career.

After the death of Fortuny, he returned to Spain and settled down in Valencia, where he produced his most significant body of work. In 1894 he helped to found the city’s Círculo de Bellas Artes. He was appointed an academician to the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia in 1898 and later to the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid.

His work was chosen for the National Expositions of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1864 and 1867, where he won the Third Medal and the Second Medal, respectively, and in the Exposition of Barcelona in 1866, with an oil on canvas painting which was acquired for the city’s Museo de Arte Moderno.