Benevides Juan Ramirez
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Benevides Juan Ramirez was a Spanish painter of the late-Baroque period. He learned drawing from his brother Josef, a sculptor. In 1753, his picture of the Election of King Pelayo, gained him election as a supernumerary professor in the Royal Academy of San Fernando After studying under Corrado Giaquinto he neglected painting for music, and died at Zaragoza in 1782.
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- Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 345.
