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Sebastián Herrera Barnuevo (1611 or 1619–1671) was a painter, architect, sculptor and etcher, who was born and died in
Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
, Spain. His father, Antonio Herrera, was a sculptor; after being taught by his father, Sebastiano was taught by
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, among others in the nobility. His was held to be modest and deeply religious. His painting colors were brilliant and harmonized in the manner of
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, however his style was so close to Guido as to be sometimes indistinguishable. (''St. Barnabas'' was long believed to be by Guido.) At the end of the 19th century, most of his paintings were in Madrid. His best are considered the "St. Barnabas" in
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, the ''Beatification of St. Augustine'' in the Chapel of the Augustinian Recollects and the ''Nativity'' in the
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. Another of his paintings is ''Retrato de Carlos II niño con su madre la Reina Mariana de Austria'' (''Portrait of King Carlos II as a child, with his mother Queen Mariana of Austria''). In 1991 a memorial plaque for Herrera was installed at
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, 3 in Madrid.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Herrera Barnuevo, Sebastian 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish Baroque painters 1671 deaths Year of birth uncertain 17th-century Spanish architects