Brief Biography-Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala was born in Bilbao to a family engaged in the arts. He studied with Joaquín Balaca and later under Federico de Madrazo y Kuntzat the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. In Paris, Charles Gleyre tutored him, and he worked under Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier. Zamacois became friends with Mariano Fortuny, who helped him in his career. He was primarily a painter of genre paintings consisting of comic scenes, many with monks, which were predominantly lively and humorous. He won the Gold Medal at the Paris Salon in 1870 for The Education of a Prince. He afterwards returned to Madrid due to the Franco-Prussian war and died suddenly the following year.