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Vergara, Francisco (II.)
sculptor; b. 1713 (in Spain); d. July 30, 1761.
A nephew and pupil of Francisco (I.) Vergara of Valencia. He went to Madrid and made statues of S. Francisco de Paola and S. Antonio in the church of S. Ildefonso. Vergara went to Rome and entered the school of Filippo Valle. He executed statues and bas-reliefs for the altar of S. Julian in the cathedral of Cuença (Spain), which was designed by the architect Ventura Rodriguez. For the church of S. Peter's in Rome he made a statue of S. Pedro Alcantara. Bermudez praises his statues for their grand character and for the breadth and freedom of their draperies.
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