Ramón Torres Méndez

{{Short description|Colombian 19th-century painter (1809–1885)}}

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| caption = Engraving of Ramón Torres Méndez in 1887

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1809|08|29|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Bogotá, D.C., Viceroyalty of New Granada

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1885|12|16|1809|08|29|df=yes}}

| death_place = Bogotá, D.C., Colombia

| nationality = Neogranadine

| spouse = María Coleta Medina Morales (1840-)

| known_for = Painting

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| movement = Costumbrismo

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Ramón Torres Méndez (29 August 1809 – 16 December 1885) was a Colombian painter and lithographer considered one of the most prolific and important costumbrismo artists of the 19th century in Colombia,{{cite book |last1=Pini de Lapidus |first1=Ivonne |title=Fragmentos de memoria: los artistas latinoamericanos piensan el pasado |trans-title=Fragments of the Past: Latinamerican Artists Think the Past |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=82qZT9bk1T0C&pg=PA27 |accessdate=2011-11-12 |year=2001 |publisher=National University of Colombia |location=Bogotá |language=Spanish |isbn=978-958-695-050-3 |oclc=50722644 |page=27 |lccn=2002417497 }}{{cite book |last1=Turner |first1=Jane |title=Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Art |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TpfrAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=2011-11-12 |series=Grove encyclopedias of the arts of the Americas |year=2000 |publisher=Macmillan Reference USA |location=New York City |isbn=978-0-333-76466-4 |oclc=460716915|page=199}} best known for his genre works into everyday Colombian life documenting the costumes, occupations, and pastimes of the common people of his time.