(sitting) visits the construction of the Hospital of the Charity.
Sanctuary of the Charity of Illescas (Toledo) He was born in Madrid, and studied with his uncle,
Luis Ferrant Llausàs, and at the
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. He also received a fellowship to study in
Rome, where he was among the first students to attend the "Academia Española de Bellas Artes en Roma", together with
Francisco Pradilla,
Casto Plasencia,
Manuel Castellano,
Eduardo Sánchez Solá and
Jaime Morera. He was director of the
Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, which was merged into the Museo del Prado in 1971. His son
Ángel Ferrant was a leading sculptor of the Spanish vanguard. ==Selected works==