José de Ibarra
José de Ibarra was a Mexican painter, born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and died 21 Nov 1756 in Mexico City, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
He was born in 1753 in Mexico City, listed as a Spaniard in his birth certificate. Ibarra was student of the distinguished painter Juan Correa, who was the son of a man of Afro-Moorish heritage from Spain and an Afro-Mexican woman.Career
Ibarra's career was marked with support of initiatives to protect the intellectual integrity of painting as an art form. He was influenced by contemporaries Cristóbal de Villalpando and Juan Rodríguez Juárez. His remains are interred at the Church of Santa Inés in Mexico City.
Many of Ibarra's pieces are preserved in Mexican museums and the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City. He was one of the most prolific painters of his day, producing mainly religious paintings for the cathedrals of Mexico.Gallery
