Francisco Javier Ramos
Illustration — Self-portrait, oil on canvas, 98 x 72 cm, Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada. • Illustration — Two Philosophers with Minerva (portraits of Francesco Milizia, the princesa de Santacroce and possibly José Nicolás de Azara), Rome, Palacio de España. Ramos y Albertos (30 March 1746 – 11 October 1817) was a Spanish painter, born in Madrid. He became court painter to Charles IV of Spain and director of painting at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Also recorded as Francisco Xavier Ramos · Francisco Javier Ramos Albertos · Francisco Ramos · Francisco Ramos Alberto
Francisco Javier Ramos

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- Francisco Javier Ramos was born on 30 March 1746. · Madrid.
- Died
- Francisco Javier Ramos died on 11 October 1817. · Madrid.
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- Bartolomé de San Antonio
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Illustration — Self-portrait, oil on canvas, 98 x 72 cm, Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada. • Illustration — Two Philosophers with Minerva (portraits of Francesco Milizia, the princesa de Santacroce and possibly José Nicolás de Azara), Rome, Palacio de España. Ramos y Albertos (30 March 1746 – 11 October 1817) was a Spanish painter, born in Madrid. He became court painter to Charles IV of Spain and director of painting at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
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Training under Bartolomé de San Antonio is recorded. Ignacio de Uranga is recorded as having studied under Francisco Javier Ramos. The recorded working language is Spanish. Work by Francisco Javier Ramos is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado.
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Francisco Javier Ramos was born on 30 March 1746.
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Francisco Javier Ramos died on 11 October 1817.
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Francisco Javier Ramos was born at Madrid.
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- 1.Historia (Spain), Real Academia de la. Catálogo de pinturas de la Real Academia de la Historia. Real Academia de la Historia. 70. 2003. 978-84-95983-26-8.
- 2.Jordán de Urríes y de la Colina, Javier, « “Crear artífizes yluminados en el buen camino de el Arte”: los últimos discípulos españoles de Mengs», Goya, nº 340 (julio-septiembre 2010), pp. 210-235.
- 3.Marqués de Lozoya, «Cartas dirigidas por D. José Nicolás de Azara al pintor de cámara D. Francisco Javier Ramos». Son nueve cartas fechadas entre el 7 de mayo de 1788 y el 13 de abril de 1796.
- 4.García Sánchez, p. 29.
- 5.Cit. Marqués de Lozoya, p. 17.
- 6.Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Archivo-Biblioteca, Cargos y títulos académicos (1752-2013), pp. 10 y 44.
- 7.Marqués de Lozoya, pp. 26-27.
- 8.Marqués de Lozoya, p. 17.
- 9.Gaceta de Madrid, sábado 7 de febrero de 1818, nº 17, pp. 147-148.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- García Sánchez, Jorge «Las colecciones del Palacio de España (siglos XVII y XVIII)» en El Palacio de España en Roma. Coleccionismo y antigüedades clásicas, Digital CSIC, EEHAR, 2010, pp. 17–36.
- Marqués de Lozoya, «Cartas dirigidas por D. José Nicolás de Azara al pintor de cámara D. Francisco Javier Ramos / Palabras preliminares de El Marqués de Lozoya», Academia, nº 8 (1959), pp. 13–27.
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His recorded language was Spanish. Formation and teaching. He trained under Bartolomé de San Antonio. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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