Prilidiano Pueyrredòn
ARTISTPrulidiano Pueyderrón's career was as incomparable as his name: he was a painter, architect and engineer all in one - a mixture that would be hard to find even in his native Argentina. He certainly had better starting conditions than others. The only son of the former "Director of the United Provinces on the Rio de la Plata" (from which the state of Argentina emerged in 1821) and an aristocrat, he was one of the "Upper Ten Thousand" of the young republic and attended the exclusive "Colegio de la Independencia". At the age of twelve the family moved to Paris (France), where his father Juan Martin de Pueyderrón imported Argentine leather: cattle breeding was Argentina's mainstay from the beginning, and leather was in great demand in the Europe of the Industrial Revolution.
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