José García Ramos

He attended the "Escuela Provincial de Bellas Artes de Sevilla" at the age of nine, where he studied with Eduardo Cano, then completed his artistic education in the workshop of José Jiménez Aranda, with whom he travelled to Rome in 1872.

There, he earned his living painting small landscapes and portraits of visiting Andalusians, for which he was especially noted.

His favorite themes were traditional in nature and he is considered a major exponent of Andalusian regional painting.

In 1917, a group of artists proposed erecting a memorial gazebo in the Jardines de Murillo [es].

The government accepted the proposal, it was paid for with funds collected by the artists, and was opened to the public in 1923.