Spanish School (19th-20th Centuries) - Portrait Of The Grand Master Of Saragossa In A Feather Hat

- Oil on canvas.- The members of the Brotherhood took an active part in the Spanish Civil War and the sieges of Zaragoza. Among them, General Palafox, son of the Marquises of Lazán, whose ancestors had been members of the Brotherhood for generations, was particularly noted. On December 24, 1808, Palafox called upon Knights of the Kingdom to create the Almogávares Cavalry Corps, charged with the defense of the city. The activities of the Brotherhood resumed in 1813, after the flight of the French. In 1819, King Ferdinand VII elevated the Brotherhood to the rank of Maestranza in recognition of its performance in the sieges of the city. It was the last of the five cavalry maestranzas existing in 2007 to have been created: Ronda (created in 1572), Seville (1670), Granada (1686) and Valencia (1690). The Royal Maestranza of Zaragoza is therefore the most recent of the Maestranzas, but the oldest in its origins. After the destruction of the Palace of the Provincial Council of the Kingdom, the Royal Maestranza occupied the Church of Santa Isabel de Portugal, the Town Hall, the Customs Palace and the Palace of the Marquises of Ayerbe. In 1835, it definitively established its headquarters in the house of Miguel Donlope, which it acquired on June 24, 1912 from the Jordán de Urriés family. - Dimensions of the unframed image: 78 x 120 cm / 98 x 140 cm framed