Founded in 1994, DELAMANO specialises in Old Masters, with a primary focus on XVI to XVIII century Spanish Old Master Drawings. Even though these have only recently become a subject of interest to international collectors, DELAMANO has been advising numerous private and institutional collections on their acquisitions for decades, attempting to break the traditional art-historical opinion that suggests that the brilliance of drawings by Spanish artists was exclusively confined to preliminary sketches for final compositions.

Scholarly research has always been a key concept within the philosophy of DELAMANO, and it has been crucial in their endeavour to internationalise Spanish art. Due to their thorough research and the rigorous criteria DELAMANO applies to attribution, conservation and provenance, the catalogues that they have regularly published since 2002, such as FECIT or Trazos de Luz, have presented an extremely large number of previously unpublished drawings by great Spanish artists and by foreign artists working in Spain.

In recent years the gallery’s active focus on the study of the 16th- to 18th-century Spanish school has expanded to include another school that has been totally overlooked by the art market and art historians, namely that of the artists active during the colonial period in the various Spanish viceroyalties in Latin America.

Throughout the years DELAMANO has carried out the sale of important drawings to institutions closely associated with Spanish art, including the Museo Nacional del Prado, The Hispanic Society and the Meadows Museum, in addition to many other European museums such as the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, the Ashmolean Museum, the British Museum and the Musée du Louvre, and finally to institutions in the United States including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Morgan Library and the Getty Museum.