Ricardo Macarrón Jaime (1926–2004), was a Spanish painter and portraitist.^[1] He is known for his court paintings for European royalty and portraits of aristocracy,^[2] including four generations of the House of Bourbon,^[3] and Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg.

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Ricardo Macarrón Jaime was born April 9, 1926, in Madrid, Spain.^[1][4] His father Juan Macarrón Despierto owned a workshop for art restorers and carvers.^[4]

Macarrón attended Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, studying under Joaquín Valverde Lasarte [es].^[1][5][4] While he was a student he made his first portrait of artist Joaquín García Donaire in 1943.^[4] Macarrón won many art awards while he was a student.^[4] He met his future wife Alicia Iturrioz in college, where she also attended too.^[6] Together they had two daughters.^[6]

He had three marked periods of style in his paintings – from 1955 to 1960 he was working with a cubist influence; from 1960 to 1968 his work was darker and emphasized "disenchantment"; and in later life in the 1990s the work reflected his strong technical skills and techniques.^[4] Macarrón had painted portraits of three Queens, Sofia of Spain, Elizabeth II of England, Noor of Jordan.^[4] Also notable is his 1961 portrait of Carmen Cervera.^[7]

Macarrón died on May 14, 2004, in Riaza, Spain.^[8] He was cremated and has a memorial in Almudena cemetery in Madrid.^[4] After Macarróns death, Iturrioz wrote the memoir Mi Vida con Ricardo Macarrón (2014) about their shared life experiences.

His work is found in public museum collections, including the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum,^[9][10] and Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer.