Eduardo Chicharro y Agüera

In 1896, he received honorable mention at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts and, in 1899, a Second Class prize for "Uveras" (grape sellers), In 1900, thanks to a scholarship, he was able to study at the Spanish Academy in Rome.

[2] In 1904, he received a First Class prize at the National Exhibition for "The Poem of Arminda and Rinaldo", a three-panel work depicting characters from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso.

[2] That same year (1912), he came back to Rome as Director of the Spanish Academy, the Italian branch of the Real Academia de San Fernando.

Later in 1936, the painting was placed in the Correspondents Room of the Centre William Rappard, but the ILO Deputy-Director Harold Butler requested that it be removed.

[1] During the Spanish Civil War, he lived with his friend, the painter, Luis Gallardo Pérez [es], who influenced him to brighten his color palette.