Antonio de Pereda y Salgado ( – January 30, 1678) was a Spanish

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-era painter, best known for his

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Biography

Pereda was born in

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, the eldest of three brothers from an

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family. His father, mother and two brothers were all painters.Linda Mann Art Gallery-Antonio de Pereda
/ref> He was educated in

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and was taken under the protective wing of the influential

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. As well as still lifes and religious paintings, Pereda was known for his historical paintings such as the ''Relief of Genoa'' (1635), depicting a historical event of the 1620s. This was painted for the

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of the

Buen Retiro Palace Buen Retiro Palace (Spanish: ''Palacio del Buen Retiro'') in Madrid was a large palace complex designed by the architect Alonso Carbonell (c. 1590–1660) and built on the orders of Philip IV of Spain as a secondary residence and place of recrea ...

as part of the same series as Velázquez's '' Surrender of Breda''. After Crescenzi's death in 1635, Pereda was expelled from the court and began to take commissions from

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institutions.

Works

* The Relief of Genoa (''El Socorro a Génova''), 1634 * '' Agila'', 1635, painted for the collection of series of Gothic kings at the

Palacio del Buen Retiro Buen Retiro Palace (Spanish: ''Palacio del Buen Retiro'') in Madrid was a large palace complex designed by the architect Alonso Carbonell (c. 1590–1660) and built on the orders of Philip IV of Spain as a secondary residence and place of recre ...

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. * ''Desengaño de la vida'', around 1634 * ''Immaculate'' (''Immaculada''), several paintings now at several museums including the Prado (1636 painting), the Museo de Ponce, Puerto Rico (1654 painting), Hospital de la Venerable Orden Tercera in Madrid (1657 painting), Lyon, Budapest, etc. * ''Annunciation'', 1637, Prado * ''Los desposorios de la Virgen con San José'', 1640 * ''San Jerónimo penitente'' and ''San Pedro liberado por el ángel'', 1643, Prado. * ''Profesión de la infanta Margarita con San Agustín y la Virgen en gloria'', 1650, Convento de la Encarnación, Madrid. * ''Curación de Tobías'', Barnard Castle,

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, 1652. * ''San José'' (''Saint Joseph''), Madrid, Royal Palace, 1654. * ''El Salvador'', 1655, now at the Capilla del Cristo and at San Ginés church, Madrid. * '' Santo Domingo en Soriano'' (''St. Dominic in Soriano''), 1655, Museo Cerralbo. * ''Elías y los profetas de Baal'' (''Elijah and the Prophets of Baal''), 1659, Madrid, parroquia del Carmen y San Luis * ''The Sacrifice of Isaac'', Dallas Museum of Art * ''San Francisco de Asís en la Porciúncula'' (''St. Francis of Assisi and the Porziuncola''), 1664, Museo de Valladolid. * ''San Jerónimo y la visión del Juicio Final'', 1668, private collection. * ''San Guillermo de Aquitania'' (''St. William of Aquitaine''), 1672, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. * Several paintings of ''Bodegón'' including the Museo d'Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Helsinki (''bodegón de frutas'' y ''bodegón de cocina'') and The Pushkin Museum, Moscow (''bodegón de legumbres'', 1651). * ''Vanitas'', (versions at the

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, Florence, where it has been attributed to Juan de Valdés Leal, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Zaragoza), without date or signature, possibly corresponding to his final stage * ''

The Knight's Dream ''The Gentleman's Dream'', ''The Knight's Dream'' or ''Dillusion with the World'' ( es, El sueño del caballero) is a 1650s vanitas painting by the Spanish artist Antonio de Pereda. It is now in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando ...

'' (''El sueño del caballero''), Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando * ''Canticle of Saint Simon'', Musée Condé, Chantilly *''Saint Peter Repentant'' (San Pedro arrepentido), Museo de la

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF; ), located on the Calle de Alcalá in the heart of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal acad ...

Gallery

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Biography

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