Juan Ramírez Mejandre (23 March 1680 – 15 July 1739) was a Spanish

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sculptor. Ramírez was the head of a family of artists from

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. He was the father of the sculptors Manuel Ramirez de Arellano and José Ramírez de Arellano, and the painter Juan Ramírez de Arellano. He first trained with the sculptor Gregorio Aragon Mesa. He was the founder of a Drawing Academy (1714-1739) in the city of Zaragoza, and by the end of the

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was considered one of the best Aragonese sculptors of the eighteenth century. Most of his works are preserved in the

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External links and references

Ramirez Family in the Great Aragon Encyclopedia (''Spanish'')
1680 births 1739 deaths 18th-century Spanish sculptors 18th-century Spanish male artists Spanish Baroque sculptors Spanish male sculptors {{Spain-sculptor-stub