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Juan de Valdés Leal (4 May 1622 – 15 October 1690) was a Spanish painter and etcher of the Baroque era. Career. Valdés was born in Seville in 1622. He became a painter, sculptor, and architect. By his twenties, he was studying under Antonio del Castillo in Córdoba.
Juan de Nisa Valdés Leal (born May 4, 1622, Sevilla, Spain—died October 15, 1690, Sevilla) was a painter, president of the Sevilla (Seville) Academy, and the major figure in Sevillian painting for many years, known for his dramatic, inventive, and often violent paintings.
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Valdés Leal, Juan de. Sevilla (Spain), 1622 - Sevilla (Spain), 1690. This Spanish painter and engraver was an exact contemporary of Murillo as well as his greatest rival as a painter in Seville at that time.
Juan de Valdés Leal (4 May 1622 – 15 October 1690) was a Spanish painter and etcher of the Baroque era. Valdés was born in Seville in 1622. He became a painter, sculptor, and architect. By his twenties, he was studying under Antonio del Castillo in Córdoba.
- Spanish
- May 4, 1622
- Seville , Spain
- October 15, 1690
Jan 18, 2024 · Even during his lifetime, Juan de Valdés Leal became known for somber, if not macabre, subjects painted in a dramatic style. Commissions throughout his life included altarpieces, retables, vanitas paintings, and frescoes.
He is first recorded in Córdoba in 1647, the year he signed and dated a painting of Saint Andrew, which shows affinities with the style of the Sevilian master, Francisco de Herrera the Elder. Valdés remained in Córdoba until 1656, by which time he had developed his mature style.
Juan de Valdés Leal (hwän ŧħā väldās´ lāäl´), 1622–90, Spanish baroque painter and etcher, active mainly in Seville and Córdoba. He is especially famous for grimly moralizing subjects, as in Allegory of Vanity (Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Conn.) and Hieroglyphs of Death (Seville).
