# Daniel Zuloaga artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:19:37.847Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Spanish
- Common media: Ceramics and art pottery, Painting

## Portrait

![Daniel Zuloaga](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/1918-05-18%2C_La_Esfera%2C_Retrato_del_ceramista_Daniel_Zuloaga%2C_Ignacio_Zuloaga_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-1918-05-18%2C_La_Esfera%2C_Retrato_del_ceramista_Daniel_Zuloaga%2C_Ignacio_Zuloaga_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Ignacio Zuloaga · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1918-05-18,_La_Esfera,_Retrato_del_ceramista_Daniel_Zuloaga,_Ignacio_Zuloaga_(cropped).jpg

## About Daniel Zuloaga

Daniel Zuloaga (1852–1921) was a Spanish ceramist and painter associated with the renewal of Spanish art pottery around the turn of the twentieth century. After early work connected with Madrid's royal and ceramic institutions and training in France, he worked with his brothers and developed workshops in Madrid and Segovia. His practice joined ceramic technique with architectural decoration, and public sources connect him with the façades of the Palacio de Velázquez as well as work at the Palacio de Cristal and the Hospital de Maudes. He also participated in international exhibitions, helping his ceramics circulate beyond Spain. Collectors may encounter his name on independent ceramic pieces, decorative architectural work, and paintings, as well as in records involving the wider Zuloaga family or workshop. Because the available evidence is stronger on biography than on object-level cataloguing, signatures, workshop participation, dates, and attribution should be assessed for each individual work.

## Common works and media

Public biographical sources identify ceramics and painting as Zuloaga's principal fields. Architectural ceramic decoration is especially prominent in the surviving account, including façade and building projects, while his reputation in Spanish art pottery suggests that collectors may also encounter standalone ceramic objects. The source pack does not establish named series, edition structures, or a reliable hierarchy of recurring painted subjects.

## Market and appraisal context

A work attributed to Daniel Zuloaga should first be classified by medium and function: a painting, a standalone ceramic object, workshop production, or part of an architectural decorative program. The distinction matters because his biography includes collaboration with his brothers and activity in workshops in both Madrid and Segovia. The available source pack does not contain detailed auction-house descriptions, realized-price series, edition data, or condition reports, so it cannot support price predictions or market-trend claims. For appraisal, any public comparable sales should be matched closely by work type, technique, date, scale, attribution wording, and architectural or workshop context. Provenance and condition should be evaluated from documentation for the specific object rather than inferred from the artist's general biography.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5219156
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021655
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Zuloaga
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Zuloaga
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Zuloaga
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/6457057/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87848569
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/140919767
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000078278716
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/daniel-zuloaga/