José María Velasco Gómez, Mexican painter and academic (died 1912)

José María Velasco Gómez

Mexican polymath and artist (1840–1912)

José María Tranquilino Francisco de Jesús Velasco Gómez Obregón, generally known as José María Velasco, was a 19th-century Mexican polymath, most famous as a painter who made Mexican geography a symbol of national identity through his paintings. He was both one of the most…