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(1) Ramón Destorrents
(b 1351; d 1391). Painter. He was the foremost painter of his time in Barcelona; his son (2) Rafael Destorrents was equally renowned as an illuminator of manuscripts. One of the earliest records of Ramón, a payment for the illumination of a Psalter (untraced) for King Pedro IV (1351), shows that the Destorrents’s workshop already enjoyed royal patronage. Additional royal commissions followed, and in 1353 Ramón was paid when he began work on retables for the royal chapel in Valencia and for the chapel of the royal palace (the Almudayna) in Palma de Mallorca. The latter had been started by Ferrer Bassa in 1343, and it was completed by Ramón c. 1358, when he received payment for it. He was also paid for retables for the chapel in the royal castle at Lleida (Sp. Lérida) in 1356 and for the Aljaferia, Saragossa, in 1358. He collaborated with sculptor Pere Morágues on a sphere for the astrologer Dalmau ces Planes in 1362. He was a witness in 1385, and he is last mentioned in 1391, when he made his will.
Part of the Destorrents family
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