Francisco Preciado

Francisco Preciado de la Vega (1713–1789) was a Spanish painter, active mainly in Italy. He was involved in a number of artists' associations in Rome, both as a member and an officer.

Portrait of Francisco Preciado de la Vega

Life

Francisco Preciado was born in Écija, Spain, and initially trained with Domingo Martinez, but on the advice of court painter Francisco de Vieyra, he went to Rome in 1732, with sculptor Felipe de Castro.[1]

There he entered the school of Sebastiano Conca.[2] He painted some pictures in Rome, including a Holy Family for the church of Santi Quaranta Martiri e San Pasquale Baylon, Rome. Preciado painted both sacred subjects and portraits.[3] Philip V granted him an annual pension of 500 ducats in 1740, a decision influenced by the recommendation of Spain's minister plenipotentiary in Rome, Cardinal Troiano Acquaviva d'Aragona.

Preciado was involved as a designer of machines or civil apparatus for the celebration of the Chinea festivities from 1744 to 1750, during which grand temporary structures were erected during the celebration all over Rome. He also collaborated on book projects.[1]

La Sacra Famiglia, (Santi Quaranta Martiri e San Pasquale Baylon)

In 1750, Preciado married Italian miniature painter, Caterina Cherubini.[4][5] In 1758, he was appointed to Rome as the secretary of the Accademia di San Luca,[6] due in part to reports he wrote about the functioning of the academies in Europe, and that should serve as the basis for the drafting of the statutes of the Madrid cenacle. As director, he sometimes managed to obtain small pensions for struggling Spanish artists newly arrived in Rome. He retained the post all his life.

In 1760, was appointed for a time painter of the chamber (pintor de cámara) of King Ferdinand VI. He became principe of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome from 1764 to 1767.[7] He was also a member of the Spanish Academia de San Fernando. Francesco Manno was one of his pupils.[8]

Preciado wrote a treatise on painting: Arcadia Pittorica in 1788. Also that year, Preciado and his wife were inducted as honorary members of the Accademia Clementina in Bologna.[1]

Francisco Preciado lived most of his life at Rome, where he died in 1789 and was buried at Santa Susanna.

Works

Preciado de la Vega's career as a painter in Rome was closely linked to religious institutes and the Spanish diplomatic corps, in a very demanding and competitive artistic environment. Also, his involvement with various professional associations in Rome left him little time to paint. This is a partial list of known work.

  • alegoria de la paz
    alegoria de la paz
  • Alegoría de la Historia
    Alegoría de la Historia
  • Judá y Tamar
    Judá y Tamar
  • Sacrificio de la hija de Jefté
    Sacrificio de la hija de Jefté

References
  1. Ortega, Macarena Moralejo. "Francisco Preciado de la Vega", Real Academia de la Historia
  2. Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. London: T&W Boone. p. 57.
  3. "Francisco Preciado de la Vega" Biografias y Vidas
  4. Victor Deupi (5 March 2015). Architectural Temperance: Spain and Rome, 1700-1759. Routledge. pp. 69–. ISBN 978-1-317-64249-7.
  5. Pastellist biographies, website.
  6. "Biografia de Francisco Preciado de la Vega". www.biografiasyvidas.com. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  7. Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostril, by Gaetano Moroni, published in Venice, (1857): page 132.
  8. Betti, Salvatore (1834). Emilio de Tipaldo (ed.). Biografia degli Italiani illustri nelle scienze: lettere ed arti del Secolo XVIII, e de'Contermporanei. Tipografia di Alvisopoli, Venice. p. 287.
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