St. John the Evangelist and Saint Simon

"Vicente López Portaña (Valencia, 1972 – Madrid, 1850) was an academic training painter influenced, among others, by A. Rafael Mengs and Mariano Salvador Maella. Despite also being in active during the first half of the 19th century, his work always was closer to the plastic language of the 18th century.

He was a court painter for four reigns, for almost fifty years. These Maricel palace drawings coming from M.D. Jesus Perez Rosales collection, according to professor Bonaventura Bassegoda could be the preparatory drawings for the safekeeping sacristy of the Escorial monastery, as a king Ferran VII order, as they had a close relationship.

As a drawer he made little images and religious emblems drawings that later were engraved and had a large diffusion."