(b Texcoco, nr Mexico City, 20 May 1824; d Texcoco, 4 April 1904). Mexican painter and writer. He entered the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City in 1836, studying under Miguel Mata (1814–76) and subsequently with Pelegrín Clavé; the preponderance of biblical themes in his student production can be attributed to the emphasis on such subject-matter both in Clavé’s work and among the conservative group that dominated the Academia in the mid-19th century. Gutiérrez’s ideological sympathies with the liberal faction, however, soon led him to produce paintings such as the Judgement of Brutus (1857; Mexico City, Mus. N.A.), republican in theme and markedly influenced in style by David, although falling far short of the latter’s technical perfection.