Calle de Pedro Bosch
Recalls Pedro Bosch y Llanás, a 19th-century cloth merchant and art dealer who owned the land in the Pacífico area from which the street was laid out.
The name comes from Pedro Bosch y Llanás, a native of Puigcerdá, a cloth merchant who made his fortune in 19th-century Madrid and ended up as a picture dealer. His land in the Pacífico area was divided into plots for housing, and from that property came the street the city council named after him in 1917.
Bosch was not just a prosperous draper. He ran the so-called Salones Bosch, where contemporary painting was shown and sold, making him part of Madrid’s emerging art market. He dealt with Federico de Madrazo, who painted both him and his daughter; those canvases are kept today in Madrid museums.
The street later had a life far removed from the painting salon. An extension of Doctor Esquerdo as far as Méndez Álvaro, for decades it ran largely over a flyover built in 1972 above the rail yards of Atocha.