Juan Antonio de Jáuregui and Retes

Juan Antonio de Jáuregui y Retes (Menagaray, Álava, 1680 - Orduña, Vizcaya, 1764), was a baroque painter and gilder. Although he had to begin his training with his father, the sixteenth-century painter Pedro de Jáuregui appears documented in Orduña, married to a daughter of the painter and painter Francisco de Zacona. The marriage lasted a little because some years later it appears united to Maria de Ugarte, deceased in 1754, with whom she had at least two children. He died in Orduña, city in which he had become the regidor, on January 21, 1764, after making a testament in which, with the usual commanders, he requested to be buried in the church of Santa María, in his own graves with his of wives. Work

Jáuregui developed his work in several localities of the northwest of Alava and the city of Orduña and its surroundings in Vizcaya. Although his work as a gilder is better documented, it is said that he also dealt with the painting of some of the altarpieces whose golden and polychrome took over. Already in 1703, associated with Tomás González de la Cámara, he dealt with the major and collateral altarpieces of the parish church of Santa Marina de Zuaza, Ayala (Álava), where the tables of the Immaculate, the Annunciation, with traces still Mannerist by the anachronistic use of prints of the Wierix, and those that represent the saints Gregorio Magno, Silvestre and Lorenzo, as well as the Eternal Father in the auction of the altarpiece of San Antonio Abad.

In May 1712 he undertook to gild and uphold the altarpiece of the parish church of Lendoño de Arriba (Orduña), where as an endorsement of the Holy Christ he had to paint the images of the Virgin and San Juan with the city of Jerusalem in the background, figures that have been decisive to fix the style of Jauregui in the works contracted in collaboration. In historical painting is also documented the collection in 1732 of an image of the Virgin of the Rosary painted for Menagaray and disappeared.

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