Tobar, Alonso Miguel De

Place: Higuera De La Sierra

Born: 1678

Death: 1752

Biography:

Alonso Miguel de Tovar, sometimes (less correctly) called Tobar, was a Spanish baroque painter, appointed court painter by Philip V in 1723. He was born in Higuera de la Sierra, near Aracena, Spain in 1678. He trained in Seville under Juan Antonio Ossorio and Juan Antonio Fajardo. He was named pintor de cámara to King Felipe V in April 1729, taking the place of Teodoro Ardemans. He painted a canvas of Nuestra Señora del Consuelo in 1720 for a church in Seville. He returned to Madrid in 1734, where he died in 1752.