Brief Biography-Teofilo Castillo was from Huaraz in Peru and moved to Lima at four. He learned painting at an early age from a Cuban artist named Boudat Ducollier, who worked for his father. Teofilo later travelled to France and Italy, where religious art influenced him. He married Maria Gregoria in Argentina when he returned, where they stayed and had eight children. In Argentina, he made a prosperous living from photography and painting portraits. In 1905, he moved to Lima, where he set up the "La Escuela de Bellas Artes" The School of Fine Arts. Shortly afterwards, he returned to Argentina, settling in and setting up the magazine "Sal y Niece" Salt and Snow.