PAINTER PALOMO Y ANAYA
In this same place, there was the house of the famous painter D. Antonio Palomo y Anaya (1865-1941).
The first of six siblings, he got the City Council to grant him a scholarship to the School of Fine Arts in Malaga. Director of the Coín School of Fine Arts from 1885 to 1887, he obtained a pension to study in Madrid.
Already in 1887 he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts with two paintings: ''Revelation'' and ''In the asylum store''. In 1890 he participated with ''Procession of the Holy Relic'', with unanimous success. In 1892 he received his First Honorable Mention and in 1895 the second Medal, with "El transito de la Virgen". The first would be for Mr. Joaquín Sorolla.
Pío Baroja says of him: "the painter Palomo was from Malaga, I think from Álora, a type of Moor: tall, skinny, with a very black beard, very fond of mystifications."
Suffering from a serious illness, at the beginning of this century he returned to Coín, to his house in Alameda. Here he paints "The Wailing Wall", where he portrayed relatives and acquaintances.
In addition to his ailments, two events devastated him emotionally, the death of his brother D. José Palomo y Anaya in 1910, also an illustrious painter, and the death of his brother Dr. D. Rafael Palomo y Anaya, in 1919.
His painting is delicate and elegant, easy to draw, sober in color and weighty in composition. He is undoubtedly one of the great masters of the Malagueña School of Painting and one of the great painters of the Spanish 19th century.