Fernando Amorsolo

Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. Nicknamed the "Grand Old Man of Philippine Art," he was the first-ever to be recognized as a National Artist of the Philippines. He was recognized as such for his "pioneering use of impressionistic technique" as well as his skill in the use of lighting and backlighting in his paintings, "significant not only in the development of Philippine art but also in the formation of Filipino notions of self and identity."

30 May 1892

Born on the same birth day (30 May): Anthony Dryden Marshall • Colin Blythe • Hal Clement • Helen Sharman • Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose • Henry Addington • Ivor Richard • James Chaney • John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater • Mike Clayton (golfer) • P. J. Carlesimo • Sven Pipien • Wynonna Judd

Born in the same month (May 1892): Adriaan Pelt • Dorothy Garrod • Elizabeth Foreman Lewis • Ezio Pinza • Jacob Viner • Jimmy Wilde • Manfred von Richthofen • Michel Kikoine • Osgood Perkins • Zita of Bourbon-Parma