José Miguel Blanco

In 1858, he was accepted for the sculpture workshop at the Escuela de Bellas Artes [es], where his instructor was the French-born sculptor, Auguste François (1800-1876).

[1] In 1867, thanks to a recommendation from Professor Diego Barros Arana, he was granted a scholarship by President José Joaquín Pérez, which enabled him to continue his studies in Europe.

Two years later, he entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he studied with Auguste Dumont and Eugène Guillaume.

While in Italy, he took time to study; notably with Giuseppe Mancinelli, a friend of the former Director of the Academia de Pintura [es] in Santiago, Alejandro Ciccarelli.

His many journalistic collaborations included work with Las veladas literarias (Literary Evenings) and El Ferrocarril (The Railroad).