Pedro Tortolero (Seville circa 1700-1766)

This is the only known drawing by the Sevillian artist Tortolero, and it was, as noted by Benito Navarrete Prieto, possibly made after a sculpture (A.E. Pérez Sánchez and B. Navarrete Prieto, op. cit., p. 46). Tortolero, a pupil of Domingo Martínez (circa 1688-1750), is mainly known for his engravings and for his illustrations for Annales eclesiásticos i seglares … de la ciudad de Sevilla by Lorenzo Bautista de Zúñiga, published in Seville, 1747.

We are grateful to Benito Navarrete Prieto for his assistance in cataloguing this drawing.