MEASUREMENTS: 24"WX28"H FRAMED, MINT CONDITION/"in the style of"Julio Romero de Torres was a Spanish painter. His brothers, Rafael and Enrique, also became painters.During these years, he also travelled extensively, visiting Italy, France, England and the Low Countries. At the National Exhibition of 1906, his entry, Nurseries of Love (depicting prostitution), was rejected for being immoral, but received more attention from the public than the winning entries. At the Exhibition of 1908, he was awarded a first-class medal for his Gypsy Muse. In 1912, his work went unrecognized again, but his admirers presented him with his own gold medal, sculpted by Julio Antonio. After being snubbed at the Exhibition of 1915, he stopped participating, but chose to settle in Madrid. In 1916, he became a Professor of "Antique Drawing and Clothing" at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. /Private collection, no documentation.