Anonymous (Peruvian, 18th century), Portrait of Ignacio Vázquez de Acuña

Anonymous (Peruvian, 18th century)
Portrait of Ignacio Vázquez de Acuña
inscribed 'El General de Ygnacio Vazquez de Acuña Menacho Zosa y Xeria Zorilla de la Gadara Leon y Mendosa natural de esta cuidad corrigdor y Justicia mayor de la Cuidad de Huamango murió en el 11 de Mayo de 1718.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
78 x 49 ½ in. (198.2 x 125.7 cm.)

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1 G. A. Bailey, “The Image of Empire,” in Art of Colonial America, London: Phaidon Press, Ltd., 2005, 163-6. See, P. Kamen, Philip V of Spain: The King who Reigned Twice, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Philip V, who was also the Duke of Anjou and grandson of Louis XIV, was proclaimed King of Spain at Versailles on 16 November 1700 when he was recognized as the legitimate heir of Charles II, the last Habsburg King of Spain and his grand-uncle who had named him as his heir in his last will and testament. The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) began over commercial and territorial disputes mostly over Spain’s vast empire and involved the major powers and political alliances throughout much of Western Europe.
2 M. C. García Saiz, “Portraiture in Viceregal America, (1492-1810),” Retratos: 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits, San Antonio: San Antonio Museum of Art, 2005, 78-83.
3 F. Fernández Bethencourt, Historia genealógica y heráldica de la monarquía española: casa real y grandes de España, Vol.3, Seville: Fabiola Publicaciones Hispalense, 2004, 376. Don Ignacio was the great-grandson of Juan Vázquez de Acuña, who had been corregidor and mayor of Santiago de Chile. See, A. B. Osorio, “The Faces of Lima,” Inventing Lima: Baroque Modernity in Peru’s South Sea Metropolis, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 24.
4 “Vivir la vida de tal suerte que viva quede en la muerte” is a less literal translation of one of Saint Teresa de Avila’s quotes which was used in the subject’s coat of arms.