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José García Ramosborn Seville, Spain, 1852; died Seville, Spain, 1912

José García Ramos was a student of the Provincial School of Fine Arts of Seville and studied in the workshop of José Jiménez Aranda.. He traveled with Aranda to Rome in 1872 and there earned a living by creating small format Andalusian landscape and figure paintings. He was also much influenced by the Argentine painter, Francisco Fortuny, and worked with him in Rome.

In 1877, Ramos visited Naples and Venice and in 1882 returned to Spain after a stay in Paris. In Seville, he was named professor of the School of Industrial Arts and educator of the School of Holy Isabel. He also worked as an illustrator in publications including The Artistic Illustration, The American and Spanish Illustration, and White and Black.

He died in 1912 in Seville.

(Source: Enrique Valdivieso: History of Sevillian Painting, 1992)

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Market Place in Granada
José García Ramos
late 19th century