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In his house he gave lessons to a few and talked on art to students  attending the College of Nuestra Señora de Guia, a school directed  by his sister-in-law, Corinta Ramirez. His house soon became a sort  of a club in which he was the dominant figure. Toribio Antillon,  Ramon Martinez, Vicente Rivera y Mir, and others visited him often  and received much encouragement from him as did Fabian de la  Rosa. Epifanio de los Santos y Cristobal, the critic, also frequented  his place.  Most of his private pupils were girls, daughters of prominent Manila  families, both from the Spanish community and the Filipino upper  class. Of the latter were:  • Pacita Paterno,  • Asuncion Zamora (Mrs. Maximino Paterno),  • Consuelo Roxas,  • Juanita Zamora (Mrs. Pablo Ocampo),  • Pacita Longos,  • Margarita Roxas (Mrs. Andres Soriano),  • Maria Icaza (Vda. de Velasco),  • Micaela Rosales (Vda. de Marcaida),  • Pilar Lontok,  • Antera Pantoja,  • Clara and Arsenia Tambunting,  • Consuelo Hasañas,  • Corinta and Clemencia Ramirez (Clemencia later  became his wife). Among his male pupils were:  • Manuel Espiritu, painter;  • Juan Arellano, architect;  • Alfredo Guerrero, physician and painter and his nephew;  • Miguel Reyes, artist and photographer; and  • Eulogio Garcia, sculptor  And then there was also Anselmo Espiritu, who was also a sculptor.  (Juan Luna was later to become a student of Lorenzo Guerrero).  The cool deep greens of the trees and the rich browns of the  riverbanks and the rustic casco stand out sharply out against a  summerly sky suffused with late-morning mist. Textural details, tonal  contrasts, and luminous atmosphere are handled with consummate  skill. The white rowboat at left bank and the casco at right point to the  means of transportation common in Manila during the waning days of  Spanish Empire.  Other accounts say that the painter and sculptor Anselmo Espiritu’s  training took place at the Practical School of Arts and Crafts of Manila  probably under the mastery of Vicente Gallegos. Espiritu found an  inexhaustible source of inspiration in landscapes and seascapes — he  painted so many of them, some no larger than the size of one’s hand  — in a style strongly reminiscent of Corot and the Barbizon School.  The romantic allure of woodlands, secret coves and rivers, Arcadian  scenes where a misty solitary sylph or dryad may be glimpsed reclining  or gliding away, and open seas appealed to his essentially lyric  sensibility, which was more inclined to contemplation than passion.  This Lyricism in his landscape is immediately apparent when compared  to almost any of Luna’s which seethes with dramatic tension.  For the painter, the work evokes man’s relationship with nature.  The sentiment of nature, as he called it, was an essential ingredient  in Espiritu’s work and the one which sets him from painters of nature  from his generation. Espiritu looked on nature with a calm and tranquil  mind, seeing in its works a vast and serene progress rather than a series  of dramatic events.  There is an earthy feeling of the foreground, the carefully delineated  river plants holding up the bridge, and the sense of union of man and  nature in the cascos in the carefully composed scene.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":800000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":800000,"userBid":5927,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":934400,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":31168,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/41/66/lot/117.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":116,"next":118,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}