Señorial / relajado - two images of José Martínez de Roda, later marqués de Vistabella

 

Portrait by Salvador Martínez Cubells, 1895.

José Martínez de Roda (30 October 1855, Motril - 18 December 1899, Madrid?), Spanish aristocrat and senator. He married in 1892, in New York, as the second husband of Francisca Aparicio y Mérida, widow of Justo Rufino Barrios, president of Guatemala. He was granted the marquisate in 1898, a year before his death at the age of only forty-four. In the portrait, he wears the uniform and badge of a knight of the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Ronda - the Royal Cavalry Academy of Ronda in Málaga.

Circa 1870s-80s.

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Salvador Martínez Cubells (9 November 1845, Valencia - 21 January 1914, Madrid), Spanish painter and art restorer and conservator, who specialized in history painting, portraiture, and Costumbrismo.