Alonso del Arco (1635–1704) was a Spanish painter.

Life

Born at Madrid in 1635, he was a disciple of

Antonio de Pereda Antonio de Pereda y Salgado ( – January 30, 1678) was a Spanish Baroque-era painter, best known for his still lifes. Biography Pereda was born in Valladolid, the eldest of three brothers from an artistic family. His father, mother and two b ...

. He was deaf from birth and was called "El Sordillo de Pereda". He was an eminent painter, both of history and portraits. Several of his pictures are mentioned by

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, particularly the ''Miraculous Conception'', and the ''Assumption of the Virgin'', in the cloister of the Trinitarios Descalzos at Madrid, and in the church of San Salvador is a fine picture of Santa Teresa. Ceán Bermudez enumerates a great number of his works in the churches at Madrid, and in other public buildings throughout Spain. He died at Madrid in 1704.Bryan,1886-9

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* Palomino, Antonio (1988). The pictorial museum optical scale III. The picturesque Spanish Parnassus laureate. Madrid: Aguilar SA Editions. . * Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E. (1992). Baroque painting in Spain. From 1600 to 1750. Madrid: Ediciones Chair. . Attribution: * 1635 births 1704 deaths 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Deaf artists Painters from Madrid Spanish deaf people {{Spain-painter-stub