Ricardo Acevedo Bernal

Who was Ricardo Acevedo Bernal?

Ricardo Acevedo Bernal was a Colombian painter and musician. He was director of the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, a professor of painting and was well known also for his portraits such as those of noblemen, including Antonio Narino and the first Colombian President Simon Bolivar. He was also a photographer and musical composer.

He studied in Paris and won a medal for an exhibition he gave in Bogota on the occasion of the centenary of independence. In his later years he served as a consul for Colombia in Italy, where he died in Rome in 1930.