Mateo Cerezo [SEP] place of birth
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"
no honors, it can give them to the whole world". He is mainly recalled as a painter of portraits. His main pupils were Mateo Cerezo, Cabezalero, , Ledesma and Sotomayor (see "An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects"). He died in Madrid.
Noble by descent, he had an understanding of the workings and psychology of the royal court as no painter before him, making his portraits of the Spanish royal family in an unprecedented documentary