Juan Ramírez de Arellano

Juan Ramírez de Arellano (Zaragoza, c. 1725–1782) was a Spanish late Baroque painter from a family of Aragonese artists. He was the son of the sculptor Juan Ramírez Mejandre and the brother of the sculptor José Ramírez de Arellano, with whom he helped paint some of the works made for churches in Zaragoza. He trained first with José Luzán and later, in Madrid, with his fellow Aragonese Pablo Pernicharo, an academician. The work of Corrado Giaquinto also left a mark on his style.

Few of his paintings survive. The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, held in the National Museum of Romanticism, with a sketch in the Prado, is the best known. Although it is signed J. Ra z, it was once attributed to the young Goya. Another notable piece is The Election of Pelayo as King of Spain, in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, painted for the 1753 academy competition. That year he was named a supernumerary academician, but he never entered the contest because his work arrived late.