Rafael Díaz de Benjumea was a Spanish painter of history, portraits and Sevillian genre paintings. He took part in the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts until 1887. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Isabel of Hungary and received the protection of Antonio de Orleans, Duke of Montpensier, who settled in 1849 in the palace of San Telmo in Seville, where he assembled a court of literati and artists, attended by Fernán Caballero and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, together with Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer, Eduardo Cano de la Peña and Antonio Cabral Bejarano, as Benjumea costumbrista painters.

Among the works he painted under the patronage of the Duke of Montpensier are The Presentation and The Baptism of Doña M...