Matias de Arteaga

The Marriage of the Virgin

Matias de Arteaga, — son of Bartolomé Arteaga, an engraver of repute at Seville in the reign of Philip IV, — was born in Seville about 1630, and studied painting under his fellow-citizen, Valdés Leal, and became a tolerable artist. His pictures, mostly of the Virgin, with architectural backgrounds, were inferior to his engravings. The best were two altar-pieces in the conventual church of San Pablo. He executed prints from various works of Valdés and the younger Herrera, and one of 'St. Dominick,' from a drawing by Alonso Cano; also a 'St. Ferdinand' by Murillo, for La Torre Farfan's account of the Seville festival in honour of St. Ferdinand; for which he likewise engraved views of the Giralda tower of Seville, and of the interior and exterior of the cathedral. He also executed a series of fifty-eight plates for the 'History of St. Juan de la Cruz,' the first barefooted Carmelite. He engraved a neat plate of the arms of the family of Arze for a book dedicated to a member of the house, in 1695. His works are usually signed with his name at full length, or in a contracted form. He died at Seville in 1704.

Engraving of the Giralda, published in a work by Fernando de la Torre Farfan in 1672

References

This article incorporates text from the article "ARTEAGA y ALFARO, Matias" 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.

Persondata
Name	Arteaga, Mathias de
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	1704
Place of death