Background
He was the son of Ignacio Gómez de Cervantes and doña Marina Altamirano de Velasco, countess of Santiago de Calimaya and Marquise of Salinas.
He was the son of Ignacio Gómez de Cervantes and doña Marina Altamirano de Velasco, countess of Santiago de Calimaya and Marquise of Salinas.
He entered the Spanish royal army in 1810 as captain in the Distinguished Patriots of Ferdinand VII battalions created by Viceroy Francisco Javier Venegas, rose to colonel in 1813 and joined the Mexican independence movement in 1815. His portrait is part of the Museum Collection Fund and the Dick South. Ramsay Fund of the Brooklyn Museum, but it is not on view. lieutenant was signed and dated Ygnacio Ayala pto.
Missouri a.
1802, and according to María Concepción Amerlinck, it"s attributed to Ignacio Remigio Ayala, author of a portrait of Manuel Valdés (a famous printer and publisher) and several other works that hanged in 1807 at the Convent of Louisiana Merced, in Mexico City. The portrait —measuring 83.82 by 63.8 centimetres (3300 in × 2512 in) and painted in oil over canvas— shows Cervantes with his upper head shaved, wearing a green silk dress coat and white vest embroidered with flowers in Neoclassical style, lace frill and sleeves, and holding a tricorn black hat with his left hand while keeping his right hand inside the coat at heart level A posture common in male portraits of the period according to the Brooklyn Museum.
According to Amerlinck, his stiff posture and tube-like rendering of his arms indicate an early search for abstraction pursued by some local artists of the period.