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(b. Temascalcingo, Mexico, 1840; d. Villa de Guadalupe, Mexico, 1912). Velasco is one of the most important Mexican painters of the 19th century. He is best known for his landscape paintings, prints and photographs. Velasco was born in Temascalcingo, Mexico in 1840 and moved with his family to Mexico City in 1949. His Father died when he was fifteen and Velasco enrolled in he San Carlos Academy where he studied painting as well as physics, botany, and mathematics. His most influential teacher was the Italian landscape painter Eugenio Landesio. He began teaching and was appointed professor of perspective at the Academy in 1868. He began painting landscapes in the 1860's and by the 1870's he was making photographs and prints of landscapes as well. He published a series of entitled Flora of the Environs of Mexico. Because of his growing interest in nature and the Mexican landscape Velasco moved to Villa Guadelupe in 1874. There he began working on images of his favorite subject, t
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