Eduardo Zabala

Education

He moved to Madrid in 1859, where he enrolled in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and studied with Federico de Madrazo. In 1860, he studied in Paris with Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815–1891).

Career

They had two children, born in Louveciennes: a boy named Miguel (1866) and a girl named Maria Helena (1871), who married the French painter Jean Alfred Marioton. He is known to have employed the Swiss painter Edouard Castres (1838–1902) as his assistant. He died in Madrid in 1871 at the age of 29.

Achievements

• He achieved success at the Paris Salon of 1867 with Buffon au 16e siècle.

Views

Zamacois y Zabala is associated with both classicism and anti-clerical art