Juan Giménez Martín

He studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, under the tutelage of Federico de Madrazo, Carlos Luis de Ribera and Carlos de Haes. In 1881, he was granted a stipend by the Diputación Provincial de Ávila, that enabled him to study abroad. He settled in Rome, where he received a scholarship to the Academia Española de Bellas Artes de Roma. He was enrolled there from 1882 to 1886 and, inspired by the works of Mariano Fortuny, began creating Orientalist paintings. During his stay there, he also visited Florence, Naples and Venice; producing mostly landscapes. Upon returning to Ávila, he presented the Diputación with his portrait of "Doña Ximena Blázquez", a heroine of the Reconquista. He was a regular exhibitor at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts from 1876, when he presented a still-life, until the year of his death, when he received a third-class medal for his depiction of the interior of Ávila Cathedral. His entry for 1895, "A Roman Lady at her Dressing Table", has been displayed at the Congress of Deputies since 1904.