Marcelino Unceta Y Lopez was born in Zaragoza in 1835. Unceta abandoned his military career to devote himself to painting. He entered the San Luis School of Fine Arts in Saragossa. He later continued his studies at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid, where he was a disciple of the Madrazo and Carlos Luis Ribera brothers. Marcelino Unceta Y Lopez took part in the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts as a history painter, and in the 1864 exhibition the State acquired one of his works, "A Moroccan Carrying a Horse". He was also an illustrator, and his works include the lithographs he produced for the "Historia de la villa y corte de Madrid", by Amador y Rada, first published in 1860. In 1866 he returned to Saragossa, w...