José Pinelo Llull was a Spanish painter, essentially a genre and landscape painter.

He was a student of Eduardo Cano at the School of Fine Arts in Seville until 1879. He traveled to Rome where he studied with Villegas. He returned from Italy in 1881, alternating his production as a painter of realistic scenes of costumbrista genre with a growing dedication to landscape painting, a practice that was strongly influenced by his colleague Sánchez Perrier; an aspect that with the passage of time would make him one of the most active disseminators of the landscape work of the school of Alcalá de Guadaíra.

Married to Doña Ana Yanes Ferro, they would have five children. José, born in Guadalcanal, his wife's village, in 1892, was also a painter and a "plein air" companion of his father, although he died young. A tireless rivera plenairista, in addition to Alcalá, he painted those of the Guadalquivir, those of the Genil and other Andalusian spots.

In 1891 Pinelo began his American campaigns, managing to exhibit that same year in Brazil and the United States, and from 1899 in Argentina, where he managed to open a real outlet market for Spanish painting. This work of spreading Spanish art in America, as an organizer of exhibitions, was rewarded with a seat in the Academy of San Fernando and the appointment of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic in 1913 and Commander of the Order of Charles III.