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Luis A. Martínez

Died in 1909

Luis Alfredo Martínez was born in Ambato on 23 June 1869. He left the San Gabriel college in Quito without a diploma, worked at the humblest trades before managing large estates, among them the Valdez sugar mill on the coast, and wrote on agriculture. A landscape painter and mountaineer, he married Rosario Mera Iturralde, daughter of Juan León Mera, in 1896. At first a supporter of the liberal revolution, he later distanced himself from it; minister of Public Instruction from 1903, he founded the School of Fine Arts of Quito. He died in Ambato on 26 November 1909.

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