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Oil on canvas, measures: 87 x 69 cm, 105 x 86 cm framed. José Denis Belgrano (b. Málaga, April 8, 1844 – d. February 12, 1917) was a Spanish painter, a notable exponent of the Málaga school of painting. He was the favorite painter of the Malaga bourgeoisie of the 19th and early 20th centuries. His costumbrista work reaches great mastery. Thanks to the help of Carlos Larios, Marquis of Guadiaro, he was able to travel to Rome in 1862, where he studied for two years and received the decisive influence of the work of Mariano Fortuny, whom he never met. Later, in Malaga, he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts (1868), where he was a student of Bernardo Ferrándiz. In 1875 he returned to Rome where he stayed for two years. On his return to Malaga he is already a renowned painter: he decorates the Palace of Heredia, exhibits his paintings with great success (drawings, watercolors, oil paintings) and has been teaching classes at the School since 1887. He is buried in the San Miguel de Málaga Cemetery. The Museum of Fine Arts in Malaga preserves some of his works. A street and a public education center in Malaga bear their no