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Pedro Jose Figueroa

Pedro José Figueroa was a Colombian portrait painter.

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Early life

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The portrait painter Pedro José Figueroa was born in 1770 in Bogotá, Colombia where he later died in 1838. It is believed that he is a descendant of a family of artists first made famous during the 17th century. Figueroa received his first painting lessons at the studio of Pablo Antonio García. After completing his studies Figueroa founded his own painting studio where he taught various students including painter Garcia Hevia, the historian José Manuel Goot, and his own sons.

Works

Figueroa’s first major work came in 1804 when he painted the Vicroy Amar y Borbon who was a widely popular figure at the time. In 1813 he painted the only known portrait of Dr.Jose Domingo Duquesne and later published in “Papel Periodico Ilustrado”. In 1835 Figuroa touched up the famous painting of the “Madonna of la Candelaria” originally painted by Francisco del Poza. Paintings of the Quinta de Bolivar, Bolivar portraits, the painting of “La Santisima Trinidad” are currently housed in the Cathedral of Bogota which also the portraits of Brion, Canon Duquesne, Fray Fernando del Portillo y Torres, and the archbishops and Fernando Caicedo Florez Juan Bautista Sacristan.

Legacy

While the work of Figueroa was not numerous they are interesting in that the painting and the painter himself lived at a crucial time when a colony was being shaped into a republic. Figueroa’s portraits give us a sense of who was important and influential to the period and place.

References

Pedro José Figueroa Wikipedia