José Jiménez Aranda (7 February 1837 – 6 May 1903) was a Spanish painter and brother of the painters

Luis Jiménez Aranda Luis Jiménez Aranda (21 June 1845, Seville – 1 March 1928, Pontoise) was a Spanish-born French painter of genre scenes; many in costumbrista style. His brothers, José and Manuel (born 1849) also became painters. Biography His first art le ...

and Manuel Jiménez Aranda.

Biography and works

Origins and early influences

He was initiated in his first steps towards becoming a painter by Manuel Cabral and Eduardo Cano. Gifted at drawing, in 1851 he entered the

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(Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary) in Seville. In 1868 he studied the collections in the (Prado Museum) in Madrid, especially those of Goya and Velázquez. In 1867 he travelled to Jerez de la Frontera to work as a restorer and designer of stained glass. In 1871 he moved to

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, where he remained for four years, getting to know Mariano Fortuny, who greatly influenced his paintings.

Travel

In 1881 he moved to

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, where he studied for nine years, painting works set in the eighteenth century in the style of Fortuny with notable success. In 1890 he moved to Madrid, painting scenes of everyday life in a more costumbrista style.

Return to his city of birth

The death of his wife and daughter in 1892 resulted in his returning to his city of birth for the rest of his life. There he was appointed member of the Academy of Fine Arts, where he became a teacher, a position he held until his death in 1903.

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, Ricardo López Cabrera, Manuel González Santos and Sanz Arizmendi were his pupils during this time in

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. In the last decade of the nineteenth century he frequented the Alcala de Guadaíra circle of landscape painters, leaving this genre some examples of "grand master" works (according to Sorolla). Among his best known works are: ''A Pass in the Bullring'' (1880), ''Una desgracia'' (''A Disaster'' – 1890) and ''Slave for Sale'' (). He was also a noted cartoonist and illustrator, producing 689 highlighted drawings for the tercentenary edition of ''Don Quijote'' (published 1905).

Gallery

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Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla The Museum of Fine Arts of Seville ( es, Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla) is a museum in Seville, Spain, a collection of mainly Spanish visual arts from the medieval period to the early 20th century, including a choice selection of works by arti ...

File:Penitentes en la Basílica Inferior de Asís, por José Jiménez Aranda.jpg, ''Penitents at the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi'', Museo del Prado File:At the cobblers by Jose Jimenez Aranda.jpg, ''At the Cobblers'',

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