Background
José Tomás Errázuriz was born in Santiago, the son of Maximiano Errázuriz Valdivieso and of Amalia Urmeneta Quiroga.
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He studied painting at the Academia de Pintura de Santiago, where he was a student of Ernesto Kirchbach and later juggled his diplomatic work in Paris with art classes by Humbert Giroez.
Career
He was of Basque descent. Around 1900 the Errázurizes relocated to London. Nonetheless during this stay, he acquired for his art most of the characteristics of English painting, even though he was also a strong admirer of the French landscape tradition and painted many times the coast of Normandy, where he lived for long periods of time.
A sharp observer of nature, he painted views and scenes of the European countryside full of light and color.
He always gave a principal and very strict preponderance to the drawing and the composition in his work. Errázuriz was never interested in signing or selling his work, and in 1926 sent most of his paintings to Chile to be auctioned off for charity.
