Enrique Atalaya - Artists - Jill Newhouse Gallery

The lesser known but gifted Enrique Atalaya was a Spanish painter born in Madrid in 1869. He pursued an academic career, producing paintings that were very accomplished traditional genre scenes. In 1880, Atalaya moved to Paris and at the 1889 Expostion Universelle (World’s Fair), he exhibited drawings illustrating the novel Don Quixote. He exceled at small format works, often done on his own “carte de visite,” and eventually became a member of the Société des peintres enlumineurs et miniaturis.