Asterio Mañanós Martínez

He then divided his time between Madrid and Palencia, where he painted the curtains and backdrops for the "Teatro de Recreo Palentino".

In 1885, he received a fellowship from the Provincial government of Palencia to further his education at the Spanish Academy in Rome for a period of one year.

[2] Upon his return, he and another local artist were commissioned to decorate the "Teatro de la Peña Palentina".

Also, he entered into a partnership to open a school of drawing named after his former teacher, Casado del Alisal.

[1] He created some of his best-known works as a result of this relationship: large canvases portraying the Senate in session.

Portrait of King Alfonso XIII as a Child (before 1900)
Conference Hall of the Senate, in March 1904 , the first of a series of six paintings on Spanish politics.