Alonso del Arco

Portrait of Juan Everardo Nithard, 1674, now at the Museo del Prado

The preaching of Saint Anthony of Padua, a painting of 2.5 by 5m now at the Museo de San Antolín in Tordesillas

Alonso del Arco (1635–1704 ) was a Spanish painter.

Life

Born at Madrid in 1635, he was a disciple of Antonio de Pereda. He was deaf and dumb from his birth, and was called "El Sordillo de Pereda". He was an eminent painter, both of history and portraits. Several of his pictures are mentioned by Palomino, particularly the Miraculous Conception, and the Assumption of the Virgin, in the cloister of the Trinitarios Descalzos at Madrid, and in the church of San Salvador is a fine picture of Santa Teresa. Cean Bermudez enumerates a great number of his works in the churches at Madrid, and in other public buildings throughout Spain. He died at Madrid in 1704.^[1]

References

• Palomino, Antonio (1988). The pictorial museum optical scale III. The picturesque Spanish Parnassus laureate. Madrid: Aguilar SA Editions. ISBN 84-03-88005-7.
• Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E. (1992). Baroque painting in Spain. From 1600 to 1750. Madrid: Ediciones Chair. ISBN 84-376-0994-1.

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "DEL ARCO, Alonso" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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