Spanish painter and draughtsman. Together with the court painters
Francisco Rizi, Juan Carreno de Miranda and Francisco de Herrera, he was
one of the foremost exponents of a style of Spanish painting that
developed between c. 1660 and 1700 and was characterized by
theatrical compositions and rich colours. The sources of this late
Baroque style, which was distinct from that of the previous generation
of Spanish Baroque artists, most of whom painted sober, realistic
depictions of religious and secular life, lie in the influence exerted
by Venetian Renaissance painting and by Italian and Flemish art of the
period, examples of which were plentiful in Madrid in royal and
aristocratic collections.
