Juan de Valdés Leal

Juan de Valdés Leal Nisa ( born May 4, 1622 Seville, † October 15, 1690 ) was a Spanish painter and sculptor of the Baroque.

Biography

Valdés Leal, son of Lusitaners Fernando de Nisa and its coming from Seville Ms Antonia de Valdés Leal, crafts first learned in 1637 in his hometown at Juan del Castillo, possibly here already even with Francisco de Herrera, who significantly influenced his later style of painting.

On the advice of Antonio Palomino in 1647 he went with his geehelichten on July 14th of the same year, Ms. Isabel Martín de Morales to Córdoba and studied there until 1653 when Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra. In addition, he was also in contact with other important painters of the time, including Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. In Córdoba emerged from its 1652 first known images. Because of prevailing in the city plague the young family went back to Sevilla, returned again in 1654 back to Cordoba and finally settled after the completion of the work begun in Córdoba in 1656 in Seville again down. 1654 was born Rafaela Luisa María Eugenia in 1657 as the first and the second child of the family. 1660 was Valdés Leal member of the newly founded by Murillo and Herrera el Mozo Academy of Painting and ran it then itself from 1663 to 1666. Meanwhile, in 1661 Lucas was born as the first son of the family, which also became known as a painter and graphic artist in the history of art. 1664 and 1667 his daughters María de la Concepción and Antonia Alfonsa were born.

Valdés Leal's paintings adorn even today many cathedrals, monasteries, churches and hospitals. After Murillo Valdés Leal is now regarded as the most important painter of Seville.

Gallery

" Finis gloriae mundi "

" Coronación de San José " " Coronation of St. Joseph "

" Ecce Homo"