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(1) José de Madrazo y Agudo
(b Santander, 22 April 1781; d Madrid, 8 May 1859). He studied in Madrid with the painters Cosme de Acuña and Gregorio Ferro, obtaining in 1803 a scholarship to study in Paris and Rome. He stayed in Paris for two and a half years, becoming one of the favourite pupils of Jacques-Louis David, who particularly admired his strictly Neo-classical Christ in the House of Ananias (c. 1805; Madrid, Prado). Madrazo moved c. 1806 to Rome, where he completed his training. His artistic personality was already formed, and he achieved great success with works such as the Death of Viriatus, Leader of the Lusitanians (Madrid, Prado) and the Dispute between the Greeks and the Trojans over the Body of Patrocles, designed for the gallery of the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome (in situ; preparatory drawing Madrid, Prado). He also painted portraits of several famous Italians, such as the sculptor Antonio Canova and the painter Tommaso Camuccini, and of the exiled Spanish monarchs Charles IV and Maria Luisa. These last works ensured him election as a member of the Spanish Academia de S Lucas.
Part of the Madrazo family
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