José María Velasco the Mexican Landscape Painter
José María Tranquilino Francisco de Jesús Velasco Gómez Obregón, generally known as José María Velasco (1840 – 1912), was a 19th-century Mexican polymath, most famous as a painter who made Mexican geography a symbol of national identity through his paintings. He was both one of the most popular artists of the time and internationally renowned. […]