SOROLLA Y BASTIDA, Joaquín
(b. 1863, Valencia, d. 1923, Cercedilla)

Portrait of Alfonso XIII in the Uniform of a Hussar

1907
Oil on canvas, 208 x 108 cm
Palacio Real, Madrid

Alfonso XIII, (1886-1941), was a Spanish king (1902-31) who by authorizing a military dictatorship hastened his own deposition by advocates of the Second Republic.