Manuel Becerra Bermúdez was a Spanish politician, mathematician and revolutionary. A Republican who would later embrace monarchism, he went on to assume the ministerial portfolios of Overseas and Deve
Portrait by Francisco Jover y Casanova, 1888
Political cartoon depicting Becerra (in the company of Montero Ríos, Castelar, Cánovas, and Sagasta) trimming the nails of a lion that is wearing a (Republican) Phrygian cap (Demócrito [es], 1881).