Bartolomé Vázquez was a Spanish engraver from Córdoba. Trained in and dedicated to silversmithing, after his move to Madrid in adulthood, he made contact with the art of engraving and became interested in it.
He stood out thanks to his application of his knowledge as a silversmith to the art of engraving, receiving the commission from the Count of Floridablanca to dedicate himself to point engraving, called Way Bartolozzi, an art little developed in Spain, but in Europe. Dedicated to this new technique, and trying to spread it throughout the country, he earns the enmity of the director of engraving of the Royal Academy of San Fernando, the influential and prestigious Manuel Salvador Carmona, academic and conservative in the art of engraving. However, despite the opposition encountered and thanks to the protection of the Secretary of State of the King, Vázquez was commissioned to make several plates with this technique for the Company for the engraving of the royal palaces and for the collection of Illustrious Men, in addition tocollaborating in the illustration of several publications made by the Royal Printing Press and private publishers, and a few devotional prints and portraits.
Finally his recognition came in 1785, when he was appointed Academician of the Royal Academy of San Fernando, an institution that dedicated a praised obituary to him on the occasion of his death in 1802.