Antonio Richarte

Antonio Richarte (1690–1764) was a Spanish painter.

He was a born at Yecla. He was educated for a learned profession, but he preferred painting, which he studied under Senén Vila at Murcia, and afterwards at Madrid with one of the Menendez. He was very popular at Valencia, where he was much employed in painting processional banners for the guild of that city.

References

Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 374.

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