Joaquín Cuadras

[1] In 1861, Cuadras met fellow artist Walter Goodman whilst copying Old Master paintings at the Uffizi Palace in Florence, and the two became friends.

[3] After returning from Cuba in 1870, Cuadras moved to Selkirk, Scotland for three years, where he found work decorating mansions for the Scottish elite.

One of his most important commissions was a series of eight-panel pictures illustrating Sir Walter Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel.

Cuadras was represented at the Royal Academy in 1872 by his painting Mulatto Girl's Toilette, a Scene in Cuba[4] (sold at Sotheby's, New York in 2010[5]) and the following year he contributed two engravings The Cuban Lovers and The Mulatto Girl to The Graphic magazine.

In 1876 he won a silver medal in an exhibition at Liceo Artístico y Literario de La Habana.