# Alardo de Popma

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Engraving by [Melchor Prieto](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melchor_Prieto&action=edit&redlink=1) and Alardo Popma, 1622

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**Alardo de Popma** (before 1617–1641) was a [Flemish](/source/Flanders) engraver, who worked in [Madrid](/source/Madrid) in the early seventeenth century, according to the earliest references to his works. His copperplate [engravings](/source/Engraving) include [title-pages](/source/Title-page), [frontispieces](/source/Book_frontispiece) and [portraits](/source/Portrait), which are characterized by an exceptionally clean and confident line.

His is known to have lived in [Seville](/source/Seville) for a time, perhaps in order to undertake a commission there.

## Works

In 1616 he produced the engravings for the *Cronicón de la excelentísima casa de los Ponce de León*, published in 1620. He executed the title-page for the *Comentario sobre las palabras de Nuestra Señora, que se hallan en el Evangelio* by Fr. [Pedro de Abreu](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pedro_de_Abreu&action=edit&redlink=1) in 1617. In 1621 he worked with [Jan de Courbes](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jan_de_Courbes&action=edit&redlink=1) to produce a work commissioned by the [Order of Merced](/source/Order_of_Merced) that included fifteen copper plates. In 1624, he engraved the title-page of [Pedro Fernández de Navarrete](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pedro_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Navarrete&action=edit&redlink=1)'s *Conservación de las Monarquías y Discursos políticos* (Madrid, 1626) and later the title-page for the *Historia de las Ordenes Militares de [Santiago](/source/Order_of_Santiago), [Calatrava](/source/Order_of_Calatrava) y [Alcantara](/source/Order_of_Alcantara)* (Madrid, 1629), by [Francisco Caro de Torres](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francisco_Caro_de_Torres&action=edit&redlink=1), as well as the frontispiece for the *Obras de San Juan de la Cruz* (1630), commissioned by the widow of [Pedro Madrigal](/source/Pedro_Madrigal). Other works include his contributions to *El glorioso doctor San Ildefonso* by [Salazar de Mendoza](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Salazar_de_Mendoza&action=edit&redlink=1) ([Toledo](/source/Toledo%2C_Spain), c. 1618) and to *El embajador* by [Juan de Vera y Zúñiga](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Juan_de_Vera_y_Z%C3%BA%C3%B1iga&action=edit&redlink=1) (1620). The latter is one of his most renowned works, because of the clarity of the line and the play of light.

## References

- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). [*Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical*](https://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&q=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers&pg=PA1). Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 310.

- Enciclopedia Espasa, tomo 46.

- [Sevilla archivo municipal](https://web.archive.org/web/20070113232713/http://www.oronoz.com/leefoto.php?referencia=127140)

- [Los Reyes Solares. Author Víctor Mínguez, Victor Manuel Minguez Cornelles](https://books.google.com/books?id=cp-lN7X3iRUC&dq=alardo+popma&pg=PA194)

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