Juan de Echevarría

Five years later, he went to England, where he attended Eton College, then went to the Hochschule Mittweida in Germany and earned an industrial engineering degree in 1897.

He worked as director of the family business for several years but, after his mother's death in 1902, he resigned to pursue painting, which he had always felt was his true vocation.

[2] He also attended the Académie Julian[citation needed] and took private lessons from the sculptor and ceramicist, Paco Durrio.

[6] After an extended stay in Granada, he spent some time in Ávila, then presented his works in an exhibition at the Ateneo de Madrid (1916).

He settled there in 1918, participated in the creation of the Society of Basque Studies [ca; de; es; eu; fr; gl; pt] and continued to exhibit widely throughout the 1920s.