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Lameyer (y Berenguer), Francisco
(b Puerto de Santa María, nr Cádiz, 12 Nov 1825; d Madrid, 3 June 1877). Spanish painter. At the age of 15 he worked as an illustrator and then embarked on a military career that took him to Italy. Having abandoned this in order to devote himself entirely to painting and drawing, he continued to travel, visiting Morocco with Mariano José Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal in 1863 and later Egypt, Palestine and the Far East. He also spent long periods in Paris and Bordeaux. Lameyer’s painting was inspired by Francisco de Goya in its bold brushwork and glowing colour, but he is also recognized for his masterful use of line. His paintings reflect the exotic world encountered on his journeys; his best-known pictures are Fighting Moors, Moroccan Interior (both Madrid, Prado) and Travellers in the Desert (Madrid, Mus. Romántico). Lameyer was also notable as a copyist of paintings by Goya, some of his copies being long mistaken for Goya’s own work.
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