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Pedro de Obregón, (1597–1659) was a Spanish painter and printmaker.
According to art historian
Pedro de Obregón, (1597–1659) was a Spanish painter and printmaker.
According to art historian Antonio Palomino
Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (165513 April 1726) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, and a writer on art, author of ''El Museo pictórico y escala óptica'', which contains a large amount of important biographical mate ...
, Pedro de Obregón was initially taught by Vincenzo Carducci
Vincenzio Carduccio (in Spanish, sometimes ''Vicencio'' or Vicente Carducho; 1576 or 1578–1638) was an Italian painter who spent his career in Spain.
Education and training
He was born in Florence and was trained as a painter by hi ...
, and became one of his best pupils, imitating the teacher in drawing. Palomino asserts that he painted many pictures for individuals and few to the public, although some notable works include a ''Holy Trinity
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'' for the convent of the Merced Calzada of Madrid, and '' San Joaquin and Santa Ana'', commissioned by the Church of Santa Cruz, also of Madrid. These pieces were lost, but one noted was the ''Apparition of the Infant Jesus
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to San Antonio
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'' dated 1633, in the convent of Santa Clara in Villacastín.
Documentation shows he also made prints, one of them a Saint Dominic in Soriano made from a drawing by Alonzo Cano, and the other a small work with a woman sitting painting. There is also an etching also attributed to him that was given to Charles II and Mariana of Austria
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, signed P º Obregon.
He was the father of Diego de Obregón, a writer specializing in book illustration, and Marcos de Obregón, a priest who also practiced engraving but with less success.
References
* Cean Bermudez, John Augustine, Historical Dictionary of the most distinguished teachers of the Fine Arts in Spain, Madrid, 1800, vol. III, p. 246. * Gallego, Antonio, History of printmaking in Spain, Madrid, Ediciones Chair, 1999, . * Palomino, Antonio (1988). The pictorial museum optical scale III. The picturesque Spanish Parnassus laureate .. Madrid: Aguilar SA Editions. . * Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E. (1992). Baroque Painting in Spain 1600–1750. Madrid: Ediciones Chair. . 1597 births 1659 deaths 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish Baroque painters {{spain-painter-stub