Ricardo Blanco-Cicero

From left to right, standing: Mercedes, Concha, Tomás, María and Carmen Blanco-Cicerón García. Seated: Domingo de la Riva, Herminia García de la Riva (wife of Ricardo), Simeón Blanco-Cicerón García, Ana Núnez (mother of Ricardo) and Ricardo Blanco-Cicero.

Ricardo Blanco-Cicerón (Tuy, October 27, 1844 - Santiago de Compostela, 1926) was a Spanish archaeologist, who collected a large collection of art objects and antiques of the most varied; in addition to a large archive and library specialized in the subject of Carlism (with whose cause he sympathized) and a remarkable photographic archive (today in the Museo do Pobo Galego). Early life

His family was one of the most important of Tuy, and he maintained a palace house called the Black House in Rua dos Alfolíes (today Rua Tide), with the family shields of the Cicero and the Centeno. Ricardo used the surname Cicero (one of the most common among his paternal surnames) added to his first surname, Blanco. His mother's last name was Núñez. Public life

He was deputy mayor of his native city between 1877 and 1879. He moved to Santiago where he practiced as a lawyer, and married Herminia García de la Riba.

Joined the Economic Society of Friends of the Country (1884), and the Real Academia Gallega. His unbridled fondness for collecting put him in economic difficulties, which saved the support of his wife's brother Simeón García.

He was a member of two major financial institutions in the area: Banco Simeón (founded by his brother-in-law) and Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Santiago (of which he was a treasurer). He was vice-president of the archaeological section of the Galician Regional Exhibition of 1909.

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