Jose Villegas Cordero

director of the Academia española de Bellas Artes en Roma in the 1890s

Prado website, ULAN

Jose Villegas Y Cordero

Spanish, born Seville, Spain 1848-died Madrid, Spain 1922

Active in

Rome, Italy

Nationalities

Spanish

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Luce Artist Biography

José Villegas y Cordero studied at the University of Fine Arts in Seville. When he was twenty, he moved to Rome and joined a circle of Spanish artists that included Mariano Fortuny and Eduardo Rosales Gallina. He lived in Italy for more than thirty years and sold works across Europe and America. On his return to Spain, he became the director of the Prado Museum, in Madrid.

https://americanart.si.edu/artist/jose-villegas-y-cordero-5154 I.S. 1/10/2018