Guillermo Laborde - Retrato del escultor Luis Falcini

Guillermo Laborde (1886–1940) was an Uruguayan painter, sculptor and designer. He received his first art lessons at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Montevideo with Carlos María Herrera. After 1912, he studied in Florence, Rome, Paris and Spain; supported by a grant from the Uruguayan government. He returned to Montevideo in 1921 and, in 1923, began working as a teacher at the Escuela Industrial, the Círculo Fomento de Bellas Artes and the Institutos Normales.