Francisco de Artiga, a celebrated Spanish landscape and historical painter, was born at Huesca, about 1650. He painted several 'Sibyls,' 'Conceptions,' and perspective views, remarkable for their invention, design, and colouring. He was also an engraver, an architect, a mathematician, and an author of reputation. He died in 1711 at Huesca.
Ottavio Leoni was an Italian painter and printmaker of the early-Baroque, active mainly in Rome.
Events from the year 1711 in art.
Francisco López was a Spanish painter and engraver. He was a pupil of Bartolommeo Carducci, whom he assisted in 1595 in painting for the church of San Felipe el Real at Madrid, destroyed by fire in 1718. He was appointed painter in ordinary to King Philip III of Spain. In 1603, he painted a series of paintings representing the victories of Charles V in the King's dressing-room at the Pardo Palace. He also etched the third, sixth, and seventh plates for Vincenzo Carducci's Dialogues on Painting. He also painted Saint John the Baptist which is now at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Francisco de Aguirre was a Spanish painter, active in Toledo during the Baroque period. He was a pupil of Eugenio Caxes, and known chiefly as a portrait painter and a restorer of pictures in the cathedral.
Francisco López Caro (1578–1662) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. Born in Seville, he was a pupil of Juan de las Roelas. He painted with indifferent success in Seville until about 1660, when he went to Madrid where he spent the remainder of his life, and died in 1662. His works were mainly portraits, some of which are in private collections in Madrid, Salamanca, Granada, and Seville.
Antonio Bisquert was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
Vicente Calderón de la Barca (1762–1794) was a Spanish painter, who was born at Guadalajara. He was a pupil of Francisco Goya, and distinguished himself as a painter of history and portraits, particularly the latter, in which he specialized. He painted a Birth of St. Norbert for one of the colleges at Ávila.
Francisco de Amberes, was a Spanish painter from Toledo, the cathedral of which he ornamented with his pictures in 1502. From 1508 to 1510 he painted, in conjunction with Juan de Borgoña and Juan de Villoldo, the arabesque chapel, which is still an interesting object.
Francisco Antolínez de Sarabia (1645–1700) was a historical and landscape painter who studied in the school of Murillo, whose style and manner of colouring he followed.
Isidoro Arredondo (1655–1702), an eminent Spanish painter, was born at Colmenar de Oreja, in 1653. He was first a scholar of José García Hidalgo, but he afterwards studied under Francisco Rizi. He painted history with much success, and on the death of Rizi, in 1685, he was appointed painter to Charles II of Spain. One of his principal works was a large picture of the 'Incarnation,' which Palomino mentions as a very grand composition along with Santa Clara (1693) and Santa Gertrudis. He painted much in oil and fresco in the churches and palaces, and the ' 'Legend of Cupid and Psyche,' in the royal palace, is considered one of his best works. He died at Madrid in 1702.
Matías de Arteaga y Alfaro, also Matias de Arteaga, was a Spanish painter and engraver.
Juan Bautista Bayuco was a painter of some repute at Valencia, where he was born in 1664. His best works were his pictures in the cloister of the convent of St. Sebastian, illustrative of the 'Life of San Francisco de Paula'.
Charles-Louis Bazin, a French painter, sculptor, engraver, and lithographer, was born in Paris in 1802, where he died in 1859. He was a pupil of Girodet-Trioson and of Gérard, after the latter of whom he engraved a portrait of Albertine de Stael, Duchesse de Broglie.
André Bouys (1656–1740) was a French portrait painter and mezzotint engraver.
Francisco Caro was a Spanish Baroque painter.
José de Cieza (1656–1692) was a Spanish painter.
Francisco de Comontes, was a Spanish painter.
Manuel de la Cruz (1750–1792) was a Spanish painter. He was born and died in Madrid. He distinguished himself by his pictures in the cathedral of Carthagena and in the monastery of San Francisco el Grande at Madrid. In the Gallery of the latter city there is a painting by him of The Annual Fair at Madrid. He also etched a few plates of heads of strongly marked character.
Pedro de las Cuevas, a Spanish painter, was born at Madrid in 1568. According to Palomino, he painted several pictures for private collections, for which he was more employed than for public edifices. He gained, however, more celebrity by his academy than by his own works. Some of the most distinguished painters of the time, such as José Leonardo, Antonio Pereda, Antonio Arias, and Juan Carreño, were educated in his school, called the School of Madrid, which was distinguished for its extraordinary and masterly colouring. He died at Madrid in 1635. His stepson, Francisco Camilo was also his pupil.
Francisco Fernández, who was brought up in the school of Vincenzo Carducho, was one of the most ingenious artists of his time, and his talent gained great reputation for him at an early age. He was employed by Philip IV in the palaces at Madrid, and in the convent of La Victoria are pictures by him of the Death of St. Francis of Paola, and St. Joachim and St. Anne. He also etched five spirited plates of allegories for Carducho's Dialogos de la Pintura, 1633. He was killed in a quarrel by Francisco de Baras.