Cosme de Acuña

Cosme de Acuña y Troncoso (c.1758/1760, La Coruña - after 1814, place unknown) was a Spanish painter in the Neoclassical style.

Aguirre, who complained of feeling "imprisoned", quit his position and left Acuña with a double work load.

[2] When Francisco de Goya was appointed Director of Painting at the Academia in 1795, Acuña was promoted to the position that he had vacated.

In 1806, at a meeting of the Academia's board, he became engaged in a heated argument with Mariano Salvador Maella, who he attacked with a stick.

From there, he wrote a long letter to Manuel Godoy, the Secretary of State, describing a "nervous illness" that had been plaguing him since his eye troubles.