Juan García De Miranda
Juan García de Miranda (1677–1749), was a Spanish painter of the baroque period, a disciple of Juan Delgado and the uncle of Pedro Rodriguez de Miranda, Pedro Rodríguez de Miranda. He was appointed Painter to the King. Juan García de Miranda was born of Asturias, Asturian parents at Madrid, and studied painting under Juan Delgado, producing chiefly devotional pictures, particularly ''Immaculate Conception''s, for private patrons. Born without a right hand, he made use of the stump of the arm to hold pencils, maulstick, &c. He was appointed to clean and restore the pictures injured in the fire at the Royal Alcazar of Madrid, Alcazar (among them, ''Las Meninas'' by Diego Velázquez), and acquitted himself so well as to be appointed, in 1735, painter-in-ordinary to Philip V of Spain, Philip V. He also held, with Antonio Palomino, Palomino, from 1724, the post of public valuer of pictures. He died in 1749, leaving a son Juan, of great promise as a painter, who, however, died at th ...
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