Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón

Pedro de Alcántara Téllez Girón y Alfonso-Pimentel, 2nd Prince of Anglona (1786–1851) was a Spanish military officer during the Peninsular War and a politician.

He was the director of the Prado Museum between 1820 and 1823 and Captain General of Cuba (from January 1840 to March 1841). He was the 2nd Prince of Anglona in the peerage of Sardinia and the 9th Marquess of Jabalquinto in the peerage of Spain.

Biography Family life The Duke and Duchess of Osuna and their Children portrayed by Goya (c. 1788).

The prince was the youngest living son of Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna and María Josefa Pimentel, Duchess of Osuna, leading patrons of the arts, and whom Francisco Goya painted on several occasions, including the well-known family portrait of the Duke and Duchess and their children that can be seen at the Prado Museum.

In 1811 he married María del Rosario Fernández de Santillán y Valdivia, daughter of the Marquis de Motilla. in July Anglona joined General Castaños's Army of Andalusia and was given the colonelcy of the Pavia Regiment, then a very well-equipped unit with 440 splendid horses, reason for which they were entrusted with the vanguard of Castaños's Army until Andújar.

He then fought at the Battle of Tudela (23 November). He then headed down towards Cádiz with the idea of sailing for Catalonia to take up his command. which fought at the Battle of Barrosa (5 March). and was given command of the 3rd Division, known as the "Asturian Division".

Post-war career With the arrival of the Liberal Triennium in 1820, he replaced his brother-in-law José Gabriel de Silva-Bazán y Waldstein, Marquis of Santa Cruz, as Director of the Prado Museum until 1823, when he had to take refuge in Italy after the French invaded the country. on each occasion under the presidency of his friend and biographer,