Tomàs Padró
Tomàs Padró i Pedret (11 February 1840, Barcelona - 16 April 1877, Barcelona) was a Catalan painter, graphic artist and illustrator. Biography. He was born to a family of artists. His father, , was a sculptor. His younger brother, , also became a painter. He studied at the Escola de la Llotja with Claudi Lorenzale, then at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, where his instructors included Carlos Luis de Ribera and Federico de Madrazo. His fellow student, Marià Fortuny, introduced him to the drawings of Paul Gavarni. In 1867, he went to France with the  writer, , to illustrate his work "La Exposición Universal de París". In 1868, he painted the stained glass windows in the apse of the church of Santa Maria del Pi and a portrait of the abbess at the convent of San Juan de Jerusalén. The following year, he entered and won a competition for a position as Professor of drawing at the school for deaf-mutes. He taught there, periodically, until his resignation in 1875. The peak period of his work as an illustrator coincided with the "Glorious Revolution" of 1868. He was married in 1870, and had three children. During  the short reign of King Amadeo I, he lived in Cartagena, where he worked as an artistic correspondent for "La Ilustración Española y Americana". His most significant book illustrations were for "La Historia de España", by Modesto Lafuente, and his best remembered journalistic drawings were for the satirical magazine, "". Also notable were those for "El Museo Universal" and "La Campana de Gracia"; as well as for magazines outside Spain, such as "L'Illustration", the "Illustrirte Zeitung" and "Le Monde Illustré".