Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña

Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña (10 April 1854 – 19 January 1937) was a Chilean politician, diplomat and painter.

Biography Roman Daniel Manuel Del Carmen Subercaseaux Vicuña was born on 10 April 1854 in Valparaíso to , a businessperson and politician, and Magdalena Vicuña Aguirre. Subercaseaux was the son-in-law of Maximiano Errázuriz Valdivieso and the brother-in-law of José Tomás Errázuriz, Eugenia Errázuriz and Rafael Errázuriz Urmeneta. Subercaseaux and Errázuriz had ten (Also cited as six.) including:

Pedro Subercaseaux (1880 – 1956), painter and Benedictine monk; married Elvira Lyon Otaégui Luis Subercaseaux (1882 – 1973), diplomat and athlete Blanca Subercaseaux de Valdés (1880s – 1965), a writer and artist; married Horacio Valdés Ortúzar, an engineer Juan Subercaseaux (1896 – 1942), the Archbishop of La Serena.

In 1906, Subercaseaux's daughter Maria died aged 13. Through his daughter Blanca, Subercaseaux was the grandfather of Francisco Valdés Subercaseaux, a Franciscan friar and Prelate, and Gabriel Valdés, a politician, lawyer and diplomat.

Selected writings Memorias de 50 años, Imprenta y litografía Barcelona, Santiago, 1908 Online @ Google books. Memorias de ochenta años: recuerdos personales, críticas, remiscencias históricas, viajes, anécdotas, 2 vols. Nascimento, 1936 El genio de Roma; el Lacio y la campiña romana, héroes y poetas, los papas, Unione Editrice, Rome, 1911

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