Miguel Güelles (active in Seville, 1607 - 1637)

Miguel Güelles (active in Seville, 1607 - 1637) ‘Immaculate Virgin’. Oil on canvas. 162 x 108 cm. This extraordinary Immaculate Conception, with its vivid colours very much in the taste of New Spanish America, perfectly exemplifies the constant exchange that took place on both sides of the Atlantic. Miguel Güelles was a Baroque artist active in Seville who worked almost continuously for the viceroyalties of Peru and New Spain. In 1608 he contracted with the provincial of the Order of Saint Dominic in Peru to execute a series of forty-one canvases dedicated to the life of Saint Dominic of Guzmán. Thirty-six of these are kept in the convent of Nuestra Señora del Rosario or Santo Domingo in Lima. In 1619 he also granted power of attorney to collect in Mexico a crate of thirty canvases containing paintings of hermits, possibly landscapes, which he had given in Seville to ‘Fray Baltasar Maldonado of the Order of Saint Francis to take to the province of New Spain’, although on this occasion he probably acted on his own initiative, without commission. We are grateful to Enrique Valdivieso for his help in cataloguing this work.

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Miguel Güelles (active in Seville, 1607 - 1637)

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Attributed to DOMINGO MARTÍNEZ (Seville, 1688 - 1749), . "Immaculate Conception". Oil on canvas. Relined. Measurements: 106 x 77 cm; 125,5 x 101 cm (frame). We see in this work a representation of the Immaculate perfectly framed within the Spanish seventeenth century, marked at stylistic and iconographic level follows the models established in the Baroque, especially those established by the artist Juan Carreño Miranda in his work of the Immaculate Conception, located in the convent of the Barefoot. We see Mary dressed in white and blue (symbols of purity and the concepts of truth and eternity, respectively), surrounded by standing child angels. Some angels carry symbols of the litanies, such as the lilies or the palm. The definitive icnographic image of the Immaculate Conception took shape in the 16th century, apparently in Spain. Following a Valencian tradition, the Jesuit Father Alberro had a vision and described it to the painter Juan de Juanes so that he could capture it as faithfully as possible. It is an evolved iconographic concept, which is sometimes associated with the theme of the Coronation of the Virgin. Due to its artistic and aesthetic characteristics, it can be said that this canvas was made by a follower of the Spanish painter Domingo Martinez. This artist was trained in his hometown, being Lucas Valdés one of his teachers. The sources indicate that he was appreciated in his time, given that we find important commissions such as those received from the archbishop of Seville, for whom he made several paintings destined for the cathedral of the Andalusian capital and the church of Nuestra Señora de la Consolación in Umbrete. Likewise, during the stay of Philip V's court in Seville (1729-33) he maintained a relationship with French painters in the service of the king, such as Jean Ranc and Louis-Michel van Loo, whose influence will be evident in his work, combined with the direct inheritance of Murillo. On the other hand, it was precisely Ranc who proposed Martínez as court painter, an offer that the painter, however, rejected, since he did not wish to move to Madrid with the king. He had several disciples, and we know that his workshop trained Andrés de Rubira, Pedro Tortolero and Juan de Espinal, the latter painter who would eventually become his son-in-law and heir to the family workshop. His first important work was the decorative set of the church of the Colegio de San Telmo, with paintings on the life of Christ and his relationship with the sea, made in 1724. Six years later he painted two large paintings for the Convent of Santa Paula in Seville. In this same decade of 1730 he also produced individual works and sets for churches in Seville and its province, always with religious themes, as well as the portrait of Archbishop Luis de Salcedo y Azcona for the Archbishop's Palace of Seville (1739). He was equally prolific in the last decade of his life, when he created tempera decorations for the churches of Santa Ana and San Luis de los Franceses in Seville, as well as several canvases. His last work, produced around 1748, was a set of eight canvases representing the great masquerade held in Seville in June of the previous year on the occasion of the accession to the throne of Fernando VI. Works by Martínez are currently preserved in the Museum of Fine Arts in Seville.

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Miguel Güelles (active in Seville, 1607 - 1637)

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