José de Urrutia

Portrait of General Urrutia, by Francisco de Goya. Museo del Prado center José Ramón de Urrutia y de las Casas (19 November 1739 – 1 March 1803) was a Spanish captain general and military engineer. and the War of the Pyrenees (1793–95).

In 1797, as engineer general, he proposed the unification of the four different sections of the Spanish army's military engineers under one command. His proposal led to the formation of the Regimiento Real de Zapadores-Minadores (1802), which in turn led to the formation of Spain's Royal Corps of Engineers (1803).

Portrait His portrait was painted by Goya in 1798, and is considered "one of the most penetrating psychological studies painted by Goya in his maturity".