Manuel Domínguez Sánchez

Manuel Domínguez Sánchez (21 December 1840, Madrid - 15 April 1906, Cuenca) was a Spanish painter and illustrator in the Academic style.

After that, he participated in numerous international exhibitions and received an award for his "Death of Seneca", which remains his best known painting.

He was also part of a group of artists who were charged with decorating the church at the Basilica of San Francisco el Grande, where he worked alongside Alejandro Ferrant on three walls of the main chapel, and one wall in the Chapel of Carlos III.

[3] From 1884 to 1890, he spent his summers at the Artists' Colony of Muros [es] in Muros de Nalón, with his friend, and the colony's founder, Casto Plasencia, where he practiced landscape painting en plein aire.

He also did some portraits; including three of King Alfonso XII, which are kept at the Ministry of Public Works, the Universidad Central de Madrid, and the Spanish Embassy in Paris.