Unlike the picture by Díaz de Benjumea, the governor is shown wearing street clothes rather than the gala uniform of a Councillor of State in this portrait. He is also wearing the sash that identifies him as a Knight of the Order of Charles III and the Grand Cross. The style employed by Ramill y Muñoz (b. Seville (date unknown) - d. Seville 1895), who was mainly a landscape painter, also shows contrasts. This is the only governor of the Bank of whom there are two portraits in the Collection.

It is dated 1876, the year of his death, and could well have served as the basis for the portrait by Díaz de Benjumea, which was completed six years later. The later picture is without doubt more suited to form part of the official portrait gallery in terms of its iconography and its format.

Isabel Tejeda