Pedro de Camprobín Passano (1605,
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- 22 July 1674,
Seville) was a Spanish
Baroque
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painter who specialized in
still-life
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s; primarily flowers.
Life and work
His father, Pedro, was a silversmith and his mother, Juana (née Passano) was descended from the Peroli brothers; painters from
Genoa who had worked on the
fresco
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es at the . At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to
Luis Tristán in
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. He does not appear on the official record again until 1630, when he passed the exam for the painter's guild in Seville. It is presumed that he completed his training in Madrid with
Juan van der Hamen, due to comparable stylistic elements in his early works.
[Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E. (1992). ''Pintura barroca en España 1600-1750''. Madrid : Ediciones Cátedra. ]
From 1632 to 1634, he created the "Magdalena Repentant" at the , which is the only religious work he is known to have produced. The figures show the influence of
Francisco de Zurbarán, but his still-life sensibility is displayed in the items arranged on a table, in the style of a "
vanitas".
He married and had two daughters, but was already a widower when he made out his will in 1670. Ten years earlier, he and other notable artists, such as
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo ( , ; late December 1617, baptized January 1, 1618April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporar ...
,
Juan de Valdés Leal and
Francisco Herrera, had participated in the creation of the "Academia de dibujo de Sevilla" (drawing academy), in which he collaborated until his death.
Although he painted a wide variety of still lifes, his true specialty was floral arrangements; always presented in bowls or vases, with a casual look, and occasionally accompanied by living creatures, such as butterflies. Some have architectural perspectives; in the style of contemporary Italian models. He has been credited with the painting, "Death and the Knight", at the
Hospital de la Caridad; an attribution based on the arrangement and symbolic value of numerous everyday objects.
References
Further reading
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* ''Lo fingido verdadero. Bodegones españoles de la colección Naseiro adquiridos para el Prado'', exhibition catalog, edited by Javier Portús, Madrid, 2006, Museo Nacional del Prado.
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Spanish bodegón painters
Spanish Baroque painters
Painters from Seville
17th-century Spanish painters
Spanish male painters
1605 births
1674 deaths
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