Artist

José María Velasco Gómez Obregón

1840–1912 · born in Temascalcingo de José María Velasco · died in Mexico City

José María Velasco was born in a village in Mexico and became the country's most famous landscape painter. He was also a scientist who studied plants, animals and the sky. His paintings of the Valley of Mexico show its volcanoes and lakes. He died in Mexico City in 1912.