Living like an eighteenth century person when you are really a Victorian lady with a bustle under your dress. Ignacio de León y Escosura, painter. Living from 1834 to 1901, he specialized in a genre known as tableautin.

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The visit. 1871. Spanish. Oil on wood. Ignacio de León y Escosura, painter (1834-1901). Signed and dated Leon y Escosura 1871. Image source: Dorotheum. In the public domain because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ignacio_de_Leon_y_Escosura_Der_Besuch_1871.jpg
The Friends of the Duchess. ca. 1870. Spanish. Oil on panel. Ignacio de León y Escosura, painter (1834-1901). Collections of and Image owned by the Museo de Art de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-friends-of-the-duchess-ignacio-de-le%C3%B3n-y-escosura/BQE99bBWNb0t8A
Romantic Scene. 1887. Spanish. Oil on panel. Ignacio de León y Escosura, painter (1834-1901). Collections of the Galleria d’arte moderna Ricci Oddi. Artwork itself in the public domain because the artist died over 100 years ago. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ignacio_De_Leon_y_Escosura_Romantic_scene_1887.jpg
Figures in an Elegant Interior. 1879. Spanish. Oil on panel. Ignacio de León y Escosura, painter (1834-1901). In the public domain due to age. via https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/fine-art-prints/Ignacio-Leon-y-Escosura/827489/Figures-in-an-Elegant-Interior%2C-1879.html

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