Salvador Rizo Blanco (Santa Cruz de Mompox, Viceroyalty of New Granada, 1760 – Bogotá, Viceroyalty of New Granada, 1816) was a botanist and painter who was a person very important during the

Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada The Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada ( es, Expedición Botánica al Virreinato de Nueva Granada) took place between 1783 and 1816 in the territories of New Granada, covering present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela, Peru and northe ...

which classified plants and wildlife.

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Salvador Rizo was employee as draftsman with an engineer of roads when met to

José Celestino Mutis José Celestino Bruno Mutis y Bosio (6 April 1732 – 11 September 1808) was a Spanish priest, botanist and mathematician. He was a significant figure in the Spanish American Enlightenment, whom Alexander von Humboldt met with on his expedit ...

in Bogotá in 1784. Mutis defined to Rizo as an anvil for the work. In the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada Rizo was named "first painter" and also he was commissioned of the Administration and Finance of the expedition. He directed the school of painting of the expedition. Among the illustrations preserved of the expedition there are 140 signed by Salvador Rizo, more others many not signed. Salvador Rizo assumed the leadership of the expedition to the death of Mutis in 1808. Rizo decided to enlist in the ranks of the patriot army and was executed during the repression by the Spanish. Science has honored his name giving him a genus of plants called "Rizoa".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rizo, Salvador 1760 births 1816 deaths 19th-century Colombian botanists Colombian painters Colombian male painters 18th-century Colombian botanists

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