Antonio Nariño MoribundoAntonio Palomino Tobar, after Pedro José Figueroa

This 1975 copy by Antonio Palomino Tobar replicates the 1838 original by Pedro José Figueroa. It depicts Antonio Nariño before his death in Villa de Leyva (1823), holding a pocket watch to cue psalm singers. Known as the Precursor, Nariño was a key early leader in Colombia’s independence movement, famed for translating and publishing the Declaration of the Rights of Man.