Martín Zapater

He remained unmarried; spending much of his life in a house on the Calle del Coso, across from the Palacio de Sástago [es].

As a member of the growing bourgeoisie of the eighteenth century, he amassed a significant fortune from his land sales and leasing to the City of Zaragoza, other institutions, and the local nobility.

In 1778, he was appointed Diputado del Común [es] for the city and, the following year, became a member of the Aragonese nobility himself, by order of King Charles IV.

He was an initiator for many of the Enlightenment-related institutions in Aragon; being a co-founder of the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País in 1776 and serving as their Treasurer from 1790 to 1800.

His collection of letters passed to his grand-nephew, Francisco Zapater y Gómez, who published some of them and wrote a short biography of Goya.