Antonio Castrejon (1625–1690) was a Spanish painter.

Life

Castrejon was born at Madrid in 1625. He was a pupil of Francisco Fernandez, and possessed more facility in colouring than skill in drawing. His best works are of small dimensions, but he sometimes painted large altar-pieces, as the ''Martyrdom of Santa Lucia'', in the church of San Felipe el Real at Madrid, which was destroyed by fire in 1718. He painted figures in the architectural pieces of

Roque Ponce Roque Ponce (late 17th century) was a Spanish painter of landscapes, active in Madrid, where he trained with Juan de la Corte Juan de la Corte, a Spanish painter of Flemish origin, who was born in Antwerp, Flanders in c. 1590. He was instructed ...

and of Josef Garcia, and groups within the flower-garlands of

Gabriel de la Corte Gabriel de la Corte (1648 – 6 August 1694) was a Spanish painter specializing in the painting of vases, baskets, garlands and signboards, that he had learned to paint without help of any teacher. Although he was a prolific artist he had lit ...

. He died at Madrid in 1690.

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Antonio Palomino Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (165513 April 1726) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, and a writer on art, author of ''El Museo pictórico y escala óptica'', which contains a large amount of important biographical mate ...

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An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects ''An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects'' is a book written by the Spanish painter Antonio Palomino and dedicated to the biographies of the most eminent artists who worked in Spain during t ...

'', 1724, first English translation, 1739, p. 127 *Allende-Salazar, Juan, ''José Antolínez, pintor madrileño'', Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Excursiones, vol. XXIII, Madrid, 1915. *Agulló Cobo, Mercedes (1981). ''Más noticias sobre pintores madrileños de los siglos XVI al XVIII.'' Madrid: Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Madrid. . *Gutiérrez Pastor, Ismael, ''Antonio de Castrejón como retratista y otras obras de su hijo Baltasar'', Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte, (UAM), vol. III, 1991, p. 101-108. *Salvador Prieto, Ma. Socorro, ''Una Inmaculada de Antonio Castrejón, pintor del siglo XVII'', ''V Jornadas de Arte'' (''5th Arts Journal''). ''Velázquez and the Art of his Time'', CSIC, editorial Alpuerto, Madrid, 1991, , p. 289-294 Attribution: * 1625 births 1690 deaths Painters from Madrid 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters {{Spain-painter-stub