Francisco Agustín y Grande

Francisco Agustín y Grande (1753–1800) was a Spanish painter of the Neoclassic style. He was born in Barcelona. He studied in Rome under Anton Raphael Mengs, and returned to become the director of a school of design in Cordoba. In 1799, he became a member for the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. He mainly produced devotional paintings for churches in Cordoba.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Agustín and the second or maternal family name is Grande.
Nu masculí (1780) MNAC.

References
  • Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I.: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 10.
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