Colombia Costumbrismo
Ramón Torres Méndez
Bogotá 29.08.1809 — Bogotá 16.12.1885
Ramón Torres Méndez is a Colombian painter and graphic artist.
A self-taught artist, Méndez achieved great success as a master of miniature portraiture and a representative of the Costumbristo movement. His genre paintings present pictures of Colombian life, which document with documentary accuracy the characteristic types of ordinary people of the mid-19th century, their costumes, occupations and recreation. Méndez's series of drawings, "Customs of New Granada," was lithographed in Bogotá in 1851.
1809–1885