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Jacinto Octavio Picón, 1903. Spanish author, journalist and art critic Jacinto Octavio Picón (1852-1923) was an administrative officer in the Ministry of Overseas Territories during the Republic. He later became a literary correspondent for El Imparcial, moving to Paris and subsequently to Algeria. He was art critic for the newspaper El Correo, and joined the Royal Spanish Academy in 1900, becoming its perpetual librarian in 1914, and in 1902, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. He sits with his manuscripts on his knee, alluding to his dedication to literature. He wears a fur-lined coat, appropriate to the natural sensitivity to cold that, according to his friends, he possessed.