Álvaro Casanova Zenteno (21 November 1857 – 25 May 1939) was a prominent marine painter and of historic naval warfare, a statesman his art is classified as realist, expressionist, classical, and romantic.

Upon his return to Chile three years later, he took classes with the painters Pascual Ortega Portales, Onofre Jarpa Labra, and Enrique Swinburn Kirk.

[4] Casanova Zenteno came to occupy important public positions, throughout his life he served under eleven presidents reaching the rank of undersecretary of Justice and Navy.

[5] Because studied under the English sailor Thomas Somerscales[6] in Valparaíso, he had a focus on the seas, the coastal landscape and the naval world.

He was great public servant and excellent painter of subjects of our naval history Illustrious Municipality of Santiago December 2014 [14]