ALONZO, one of the most vigorous of the Spanish painters, and, like M. Angelo, also an architect and sculptor of great merit. He must have been very industrious, from the number of specimens of his genius which he has left in Spain, particularly at Seville, Malaga, Granada, and Madrid, where we have seen and admired the boldness of his design, the facility of his pencil, and the purity of his flesh-tints, with his knowledge of chiaro-oscuro. He was a contemporary of Velasquez and Pacheco, whom he rivalled without imitating; and though we regard him as one of the most original and spirited of the Spanish school, his name and merits are scarcely known beyond the Pyrenees. Alonzo was patronized by Philip IV., and obtained the church preferment of a canon; but he was a man of ungovernable temper; and at Granada demolished a saint he had sculptured for a niggardly magistrate with a blow of his hammer, a feat which before had condemned Torregiano to the stake, in the reign of Philip II. Alonzo was born at Granada in 1600, and died there in 1667. (r. s. t.)