(b Valencia, c. 1638; d Valencia, c. 1670). Son of (1) Esteban March. He was trained by his father, and sources mention work in all genres, including battle scenes, his father’s speciality. Miguel, however, died young, and there are few paintings known by him. His signed St Roch and an Angel Assisting Plague Victims (Valencia, Mus. B.A.) is dynamically composed along a diagonal that bisects the picture. The chiaroscuro of the large, naturalistic figures is more emphatic than that of March’s contemporary Jeronimo Jacinto Espinosa and shows the influence of Jusepe de Ribera and Neapolitan painting. Four genre-like Allegories (Valencia, Mus. B.A.) combine the themes of the Seasons, the Senses and Time, with moralizing overtones. March also painted still-lifes: a pair of game pieces, signed and dated 1661 (Valencia, Marques de Montortal priv. col.), are set in extensive landscapes, with small figures of hunters. Such ‘open-air’ still-lifes, also painted by the Valencian Tomás Hiepes, were known in the 17th century as bodegones de pais. A volume of figure and drapery studies in black lead has been recently discovered and attributed to March.

Part of the March (i) family