Provenance: :
Don Pedro Alejandro Paterno (1857– 1911) and
Doña Luisa Piñeyro de Lugo y Merino (Sra de Paterno, d. 1897)

ABOUT THE WORK

A handsome velvet-covered album captures the lives of Manuel Regidor and his wife Antonia Piñeyro y Merino. Manuel Regidor y Jurado was an influential insulare lawyer, born in the Philippines, who had retreated to Madrid after the student riots of 1868. He would marry Antonia Piñeyro y Merino, a member of the Spanish aristocracy — and the sister of the woman who would almost inevitably marry Don Pedro Paterno, so closely were their lives intertwined. Regidor would eventually rescue not only his brother Antonio Maria, but also Don Pedro’s father Maximo from the terrible ordeal of their exile in the Marianas, unfair sentences meted out by a vengeful Spanish colonial government suspicious of their liberal leanings, who had found the perfect excuse in the Cavite Mutiny of 1872 to exact reprisal. The collection includes a rare photograph of Doña Luisa Piñeyro y Merino, now Sra. De Paterno, in 1897, the last year of her life.