Interior of Toledo Cathedral: tombs of Don Álvaro de Luna and his wife

In this painting, a cleric and a nobleman, both in historical dress, have paused to converse inside the chapel of Santiago, a late Gothic masterpiece of Toledo Cathedral. The chapel was built by Don Álvaro de Luna, Constable of Castile and Grand Master of the military order of Santiago, as a sepulchre for himself and his family. A knight of Santiago kneels at each corner of Luna’s tomb, whereas Franciscan friars are placed in the same position on his wife’s. The watercolour was probably painted in Sydney, where Pilford Fletcher-Watson lived from 1883 to 1893. He was remembered at the time of his death as ‘the last of the cathedral painters of the old school’.