Juan Bautista Ravanals

Juan Bautista Ravanals (1678-?) was a Spanish engraver. He was born at Valencia. He studied under Evaristo Muñoz. he engraved an equestrian portrait of King Phillip V of Spain and a genealogical tree of the Royal family; a portrait of Father Gregorio Ridaura, a print of San Rodrigo, a second portrait of Philip V., some plates for the first edition of a mathematical work by Tosca, the frontispiece for a book called "Centro de la Fe Ortodoxa", which represents the apparition of "Our Lady del Pilar" to St. Francis and some of his disciples, and illustrations for another book of Devotion, in which St. Thomas Aquinas and other saints figure.

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*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1889| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume II L-Z)| editor = Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 349| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1| authorlink=