José María Velasco Gómez

José María Tranquilino Francisco de Jesús de Velasco Gómez ( born July 6, 1840 in Temascalcingo; † August 26, 1912 in Mexico City) was a Mexican art and landscape painter.

Life

Velasco, the first of five children of Felipe Velasco and his wife María Antonia Gómez Obregón, came at the age of seven years to Mexico City after his father had passed away. His siblings included the medical Ildefonso and Antonio Velasco.

From 1850 he attended the " Colegio Lancasteriano " of Santa Catalina Martir, later another Colegio. From 1858 he studied at the Academia Nacional de San Carlos de México. He also studied anatomy, botany, geology and other sciences, in order to bring out the beauty of the Valley of Mexico in his paintings can express. From 1868, he taught as a professor of perspective at the Academia Nacional de San Carlos de México, which already bore the name Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes at this time. Since his art direction moved from academic standards, he was released in 1907 by the Chair.

Velasco produced over 400 paintings, mostly oil paintings, as well as pencil drawings and watercolors. He was commissioned by the Commissioner of the Mexican government of Fine Arts with the management of the Mexican delegation for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889, where she won the first prize.