Los Sacristán: comercio y coleccionismo en la Valencia del siglo XIX

This study analyzes the commerce and the collecting of paintings and old books in the Valencia of the 19th century through the figures of Estanislao Sacristan y ateu and of its son, Estanislao Sacristan y Ferrer. Estanislao Sacristan y Mateu was a merchant, owner of the famous drugstore of La Luna in the square of the Market of Valencia. Adhered to the progressive liberalism, provincial representative and councillor of the Valencia City Hall, would be a buyer of an enormous quantity of books from the Desamortizacion. His son, Estanislao Sacristan y Ferrer, become landowner, would be dedicated to the commerce of the old book as well as to hoard a notable collection of books, paintings and antiquities, that would be scattered after his death. One part of his bibliographical collection is conserved in the Biblioteca Serrano, while one of his most famous paintings, the supposed portrait of Cervantes, will end up in the Real Academia Espanola.