Nicolás Enríquez

Nicolás Enríquez de Vargas (1704-1790) was a novohispanic painter. He was student of Juan Rodríguez Juárez.

Biography

We only have information of Enríquez from 1722.[1] In 1728 along with José de Ibarra supports the foundation of the Academia de Pintores (Painters Academy) in New Spain, which was the precedent of the Real Academia de San Carlos.[2] The most of his work remains in Guadalajara.[1]

Works

Matanza de los Santos Inocentes, 1737, Museo Soumaya.
Retrato de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Philadelphia Art Institute.

Gallery

The Apparition of the Virgin of El Pilar to St. James, oil on copper, 56.5 × 41.9 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1773
La Visitación y el Nacimiento de la Virgen, 1746, oil on copper, 106 x 84 cm.

References

Tovar y de Teresa, Guillermo (1995). Grupo Financiero Bancomer (ed.). Repertory of artists in Mexico vol. I. Fundación Cultural Bancomer. p. 368. ISBN 968625854X.
Moyssén, X. (1965). La primera academia de pintura en México. Anales Del Instituto De Investigaciones EstéTicas, 9 (34), pp. 15-29. Consultado de http://www.analesiie.unam.mx/index.php/analesiie/article/view/799

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[Repertory-1] Tovar y de Teresa, Guillermo (1995). Grupo Financiero Bancomer (ed.). Repertory of artists in Mexico vol. I. Fundación Cultural Bancomer. p. 368. ISBN 968625854X.

[Estéticas-2] Moyssén, X. (1965). La primera academia de pintura en México. Anales Del Instituto De Investigaciones EstéTicas, 9 (34), pp. 15-29. Consultado de http://www.analesiie.unam.mx/index.php/analesiie/article/view/799