Ignacio Zuloaga Zabaleta Overview

Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (1870 - 1945) was a Spanish genre and portrait painter noted for his theatrical paintings of figures from Spanish culture and folklore depicting of traditional Spanish characters, including peasants, Gypsies, and bullfighters.

Ignacio was born July 26, 1870, in Eibar, near the monastery of Loyola, in the Basque country near Bilbao, Spain. He was the son of a successful metalworker and damascener Plácido Zuloaga and grandson of the organizer and director of the royal armoury in Madrid.