Antonio María Esquivel

Antonio María Esquivel
Antonio María Esquivel, Public domain

(1806–1857) Spanish painter (1806-1857)

Antonio María Esquivel (Spain, 1806–1857) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Antonio María Esquivel belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

Antonio María Esquivel was born in Seville and died in Madrid. Antonio María Esquivel trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Isabel of Hungary and Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Antonio María Esquivel was awarded Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic. The students included José Domínguez Bécquer, Carlos Esquivel y Rivas, Gabriel Maureta Aracil, and Marcos Hiráldez Acosta.

The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 19 works by Antonio María Esquivel with free images. The dated works span the years 1824–1856. Works by Antonio María Esquivel are held by several collections, among them Pradomuseet, Museo del Romanticismo, Museo de la Trinidad, and Kataloniens nationella konstmuseum. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Juan Antonio Ribera y Fernández, José de Madrazo y Agudo, Fernando Estévez, Antonio Cabral Bejarano, and Petrus van Schendel.