Mariano Oliver Aznar is one of the most outstanding painters to emerge from Zaragoza at the turn of the 20th century. In his later years he worked in Madrid as a portrait artist. In Zaragoza he was seen as a good teacher: he trained numerous painters who began their careers with the new century, including Francisco Marín Bagüés. His works stood out at the Zaragoza Exhibition of Fine Arts and Art Industries of 1898 and he obtained an honourable mention at the 1899 edition. He earned similar distinctions at the National Exhibition of 1904 and the Hispano-French Exposition of 1908, all of which earned him a good reputation at local level.

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Lorenzo Domínguez Pascual held a degree in Law from the University of Seville and was a member of the Conservative Party. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Carmona in 1891, and returned in successive elections up to the time of the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. In the second phase of the Restoration, with the accession to the throne of Alfonso XIII, he was appointed as Minister for Public Instruction in the government of Antonio Maura (1903-1904) and as a permanent member of the Council of State in 1908. When the Conservatives split, he followed Eduardo Dato, who made him Governor of the Banco de España in 1913 and Treasury Minister in 1920. In this latter role he oversaw the controversial reform of contributions on earnings introduced by his predecessor Gabino Bugallal, and equally controversial policies to bring down the balance of payments deficit. He resigned in 1923 as a result of disagreements within the cabinet on the matter of a strike by civil servants at the Treasury Department over the creation of posts for assessors of taxes on earnings.

Paloma Gómez Pastor