Tomàs Padró

In 1867, he went to France with the writer, Francisco José Orellana [es], to illustrate his work La Exposición Universal de París.

In 1868, he painted the stained glass windows in the apse of the church of Santa Maria del Pi and a portrait of the abbess at the convent of San Juan de Jerusalén.

The following year, he entered and won a competition for a position as Professor of drawing at the school for deaf-mutes.

[1] During the short reign of King Amadeo I, he lived in Cartagena, where he worked as an artistic correspondent for La Ilustración Española y Americana.

Also notable were those for El Museo Universal and La Campana de Gracia; as well as for magazines outside Spain, such as L'Illustration, the Illustrirte Zeitung and Le Monde Illustré.

Tomàs Padró (1877); from
La Llumanera de Nova York
From La Flaca : A satire on the short-lived First Spanish Republic . Emilio Castelar (at the lectern) and Francisco Pi y Margall (on the chair), were its two presidents.