Jose Jimenez Aranda - Artist Info

About Jose Jimenez Aranda

Name variants

Jose Jiminez Aranda, Jose Jimenez Y Aranda
  • Biography

    José Jiménez Aranda, brother of Luis and Manuel Jiménez Aranda, was a Spanish painter and illustrator who began his training with Manuel Cabral and Eduardo Cano de la Peña.

    His talent for drawing helped him to enter the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville in 1851. In 1868 he was in Madrid, where he learned in the Prado Museum of the best masters, feeling special predilection for Goya and Velázquez.

    In 1867 he was in Jerez de la Frontera working as a restorer and designer of stained glass and, four years later, he managed to go to Rome, where he met Mariano Fortuny. He returned four years later.

    Between 1881 and 1890 he lived in Paris, making a series of works among which stand out those set ...

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