# Antonio María Esquivel artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:39:38.832Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1806-03-08
- Death date: 1857-04-09
- Nationality: Spanish
- Movements: Romanticism
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Antonio María Esquivel](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Antonio_Maria_Esquivel_portrait.jpg)
Antonio María Esquivel · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonio_Maria_Esquivel_portrait.jpg

## About Antonio María Esquivel

Antonio María Esquivel (1806–1857), also identified in authority files as Antonio María Esquivel Suárez de Urbina, was a Spanish painter associated with Romanticism and best known for portraiture. His public identity is established across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and Library of Congress authority records, helping distinguish his works and name variants in catalogues. The collected biographical sources place his birth in Seville on 8 March 1806 and his death in Madrid on 9 April 1857, although those exact dates in this source pack come from Wikipedia rather than a museum biography. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with nineteenth-century Spanish portrait paintings and works attributed to the artist. Appraisal should begin with a careful identity and attribution check, followed by comparison with documented auction records. Appraisily associates an established auction-record set with this public artist identity, but the available source pack does not provide individual-lot evidence for broader conclusions about his market.

## Common works and media

Public identity sources consistently describe Esquivel as a painter and portrait specialist. Painted portraits are therefore the best-supported work type for cataloguing and appraisal searches. The collected material does not establish recurring print editions, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, posters, or named series, so those categories should not be assigned to the artist without further object-level evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Market interpretation should focus on evidence for the specific object. Esquivel’s documented specialization in portraiture makes work type and subject relevant when selecting comparables, while authority-file name variants can help prevent entity mismatches. Attribution should be examined before treating an auction result as comparable. The collected Appraisily signal confirms that auction-price records are associated with this artist page, but the source pack contains no individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition notes, provenance, or attribution qualifiers. Those omissions prevent a defensible statement about price levels or trends. A valuation should use closely matched public sales and distinguish securely attributed works from qualified or uncertain attributions.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q593642
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500030232
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/42933922/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93028848
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Mar%C3%ADa_Esquivel
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Mar%C3%ADa_Esquivel
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Mar%C3%ADa_Esquivel
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/antonio-maria-esquivel/