Juan Giménez Martín ✽ (Spanish, 1858 - 1901)

Thank you all for viewing and comments! ✽ All the best for everyone! Juan Jiménez Martín was a Spanish painter who specialized in historical scenes. Some sources give his year of birth as 1855, and his name as “Giménez“. 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