Pedro de Madrazo y Kuntz

Pedro de Madrazo y Kuntz (11 October 1816, Rome - 20 August 1898, Madrid) was a Spanish painter, jurist, writer, translator and art critic.

There, he, his brother Federico and future brother-in-law, Ochoa, created the magazine, El Artista [es], which played a major role in establishing the Romantic style in Spain.

Later, he served as Editor of El Domingo [es], where he published verses in imitation of the Psalms and translations from the Bible.

[1] He combined his journalistic career with legal service; as an assistant and a prosecutor, in which capacity he worked for the Spanish Council of State in 1860.

He also chaired a commission on the preservation of provincial historical monuments and wrote the catalogues for the Museo del Prado.

His major translations include Criminal Law and Political Economy, by Pellegrino Rossi, the Book of Orators, by Joseph-Marie Timon-David[3] and History of the Consulate and Empire, by Adolphe Thiers.

Meeting of Poets in the Artist's Studio, by Antonio María Esquivel . Madrazo is ninth from the right.