Salvador Carmona, Manuel (1734-1820)

Spanish engraver and painter. He trained with his uncle Luis, a sculptor, in the sculpture and drawing classes of the Preparatory Board of the San Fernando Academy. Carmona was one of the first to be granted a scholarship by the institution to study in Paris, where he learned burin engraving with Nicolas Gabriel Dupuis. In 1777 he was awarded the post of director of engraving in wood engraving.
His long teaching activity enabled him to train a large group of excellent engravers such as his own brother Juan Antonio, Fernando Selma, José Gómez Navia, Manuel Alegre, Luis Fernández Noseret and Blas Ametller. He was involved in the illustration of some thirty books, including El Quijote, by Ibarra, based on drawings by José del Castillo. His work includes portraits, such as those he painted for Retratos de españoles ilustres and Parnaso español, as well as the famous portrait of his parents of 1780 and those of his father-in-law Anton Raphael Mengs.