# Portrait of Matías Sorzano Nájera [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LÓPEZ Y PORTAÑA, Vicente]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 106 x 82 cm ## Commentary Matías Sorzano Nájera \(1775-1862\) was a highly influential and renowned character in the town of Orihuela, where he was a trader in colonial goods and a property administrator. His portrait is a splendid example of Vicente López's artistic maturity and reveals the painter's desire to assimilate the new Romantic trends prevailing in official art circles and in the tastes of the wealthy clientele during the reign of Isabel II of Spain. In this sense he pays greater attention to the domestic atmosphere surrounding his characters, set in interiors shrouded in semi-darkness, usually beside great gathered draperies and large windows through which the light is directed to underscore their vital presence. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Trinity]() - [Portrait of Doña Francisca de la Gándara]() - [Portrait of Don Juan Francisco Ximénez del Rio, Archbishop of Valencia]() - [Portrait of Don Mateo Casado y Sirelo]() - [The Painter Francisco de Goya]() - [Virgin of the Immaculate Conception]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()