Emilio J. Mauri

Emilio Jacinto Mauri Ivern (9 March 1855, La Guaira - 18 February 1908, Caracas) was a Venezuelan painter who specialized in portraits; mostly of an historical nature.

Biography His father was Spanish and his mother was French. After 1861, his family lived in Nantes, where he began his education at the local Jesuit school. He originally planned to pursue a career in medicine and worked at the hospital there, but eventually decided to devote himself to painting instead.

When he came of legal age, he moved to Paris and enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme, then transferred to the Académie Julian to study with Jean-Paul Laurens. Other familiar portraits include those of Generals Francisco de Miranda and Joaquín Crespo.