DANIEL PONTE (LA CORUÑA, SIGLO XIX). Portrait of Faustino Torres, second lieutenant of the Cuenca Infantry Regiment.

Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1819.
38x32 cm
A fragment of La Gaceta attached to the reverse identifies the person portrayed from a dedication to commemorate his death at the age of 19 in the African War with a sonnet dedicated to “The Earth be light to him”. Along with this, a handwritten inscription by its former owner: “I have kept this newspaper in my possession 41 years, 2 months and 18 days” in Barcelona on September 30, 1901 and signed “Ramón Torres”.