Mateo Cerezo [SEP] occupation
Mateo Cerezo
Mateo Cerezo (19 April 1637 in Burgos – 29 June 1666 in Madrid) was a Baroque Spanish painter.
Cerezo was born in Burgos to his father Mateo Cerezo the Elder. In 1654 he moved to Madrid and studied with Juan Carreño de Miranda and possibly with Antonio de Pereda.
He died young at age twenty-nine years, and much of his work is at the Prado Museum in Madrid, as well as at the Museo de Burgos.
Works.
- "Ecce Homo"
; Madrid, Prado). The latter had been formerly attributed to Mateo Cerezo, also a pupil of Carreño de Miranda. 
Antonio Palomino praises Cabezalero's modest, studious nature and laments that he died young.
External links.
- "Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652", a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Juan Martín Cabezalero (see index)