Spanish school of the late 19th century

Spanish school of the late nineteenth century.
"Portrait of a gentleman, 1895.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the left central part.
It has Repainting. Precise cleaning.
Presents period frame.
Measurements: 59 x 48 cm; 74 x 62 cm (frame).

As in the rest of Europe, the portrait became in the 19th century the protagonist genre par excellence of Spanish painting, as a consequence of the new social structures, embodying the maximum expression of the transformation of the taste and mentality of the new bourgeois clientele. This genre embodies the permanent presence of the image of its protagonists, to be enjoyed in the intimacy of a studio, in the daily warmth of a family cabinet or presiding over the main rooms of the house.