Francisco Salmerón (1608–1632) was a Spanish painter of the

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 ...

period. Born in Cuenca, he was a pupil of

Pedro Orrente Pedro de Orrente (April 1580, Murcia – 19 January 1645, Valencia) was a Spanish painter of the early Baroque period who became one of the first artists in that part of Spain to paint in a Naturalistic style. Biography His father, Jaime de Ho ...

, and followed his brother, the prominent Cristobal Garcia Salmerón (1603–1666), also a pupil of Orrente. Francisco painted in the church of San Francisco at Cuenca a ''Burial of Christ''.

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* 1608 births 1632 deaths People from Cuenca, Spain 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish Baroque painters {{Spain-painter-stub