Joaquin Cuadras

Joaquín Cuadras (1843 - 1877) was a Cuban painter.

He is believed to have spent some time in London around 1864 where he sat for the portrait painter Julia Goodman [Jewish Chronicle March 18th 1864. Page 3] . Later that year he travelled to Cuba with Julia Goodman’s son, Walter Goodman [Pearl of The Antilles or An Artist in Cuba, London: H.S.King & Co. 1873] .

Between 1868 and 1869 Cuadras was director of Academia de Dibujo de Santiago de Cuba. In 1876 he won a silver medal in an exhibition at Liceo Artístico y Literario de La Habana. He won a bronze medal in 1877 in the "los juegos florales" of the Liceo de Matanzas [Cronologia de Santiago de Cuba. Oscar Ruiz Miyares 1998] . Four of his notable Cuban works were "Como de Médicis", "Río Baconao", "Orfila Coronado Por Una Diosa" (1874), and "Lección de Anatomía" - the whereabouts of which are unknown today.

Joaquín Cuadras died in Rome in January 1877.

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