Francisco de Burgos Mantilla - Still Life with Dried Fruit - 1972

Francisco de Burgos Mantilla (1609 or 1612Ebert-Schifferer, Sybille (1999) ''Still Life: A History''. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 190. April 1, 1672) was a Spanish

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

painter of portraits and

still life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...

s. He was born in Burgos but from 1618 he lived in Madrid, where he had his first artistic training under Pedro de las Cuevas.Cherry, Peter. "Burgos Mantilla, Francisco de." ''Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online''. Oxford University Press. Web. In 1624 he became a pupil of

Diego Velázquez Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptized June 6, 1599August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of th ...

. Although in his lifetime he was best known for his portraits, all of them are now lost. He died in Madrid in 1672. The only work by Burgos Mantilla known to survive is the ''Still Life with Dried Fruit'' (1631), now in the collection of Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. This small bodegón, which is signed and dated, is reminiscent in its subdued colors and naturalistic composition to the work of the Italian followers of

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...

. On the basis of stylistic similarity a second, unsigned still life (''Bodegon'',

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) has also been attributed to him."Burgos Mantilla, Francisco de", Museo del Prado
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