Bartolomé Pérez

Bartolomé Pérez de la Dehesa (1634 – 16 January 1693) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.

Bartolomé Pérez, Vase of Flowers c. 1690.

Born in Madrid, he became the son-in-law and pupil of the painter Juan de Arellano. He is known as a painter of flowers and still life, known as bodegones. He also painted scenography for performances at the theater of Buen Retiro, for which he was named painter of the King without salary in January 1689. He died after falling from a scaffold used to paint the ceiling of the palace of Monteleon, and was buried in the church of San Ildefonso.

Works

• Guirnalda de San Francisco de Borja' (c. 1675-80)
• Basket of Flowers (c.1675-1685)
• Garland of Flowers with St. Anthony of Padua (1689)
• Vase of Flowers (two paintings) (c. 1690)
• the Annunciation of the angel Gabriel (1690)[1]

References

1. "Sunlight helps identify 17th Century painting at Hearst Castle". BBC. 2018-03-09. Retrieved 2018-03-10.

• Antonio Palomino, An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects, 1724, first English translation, 1739, p. 130
• Madrazo, Pedro de (1872). Catálogo Descriptivo e Histórico del Museo del Prado de Madrid (Parte Primera: Escuelas Italianas y Españolas). Calle del Duque de Osuna #3; Original from Oxford University, Digitized May 1, 2007: M. Rivadeneyra. p. 517.CS1 maint: location (link)
• Agulló Cobo, Mercedes (1998). Una familia de pintores: los Arellano, en Juan de Arellano 1614-1676 (A Family of Painters: Arellano). Madrid, commissioned by A. E. Pérez Sánchez. ISBN 84-88458-66-5.
• Gutiérrez Pastor, Ismael, Géneros y colaboraciones en la pintura madrileña del siglo XVII. A propósito de los lienzos de Bartolomé Pérez en el retablo mayor de Santa María de Gumiel de Mercado (Burgos), Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte (UAM), vol XVIII, 2006, p. 107-123.
• Museo del Prado (1995). La belleza de lo real. Floreros y bodegones en el Museo del Prado 1600-1800. Madrid, Publyco S.A. ISBN 84-87317-43-X.

External links

Media related to Bartolomé Pérez at Wikimedia Commons

• http://www.artnet.com/artist/555985/bartolome-perez.html
• Biography at the Musel del Prado Online Encyclopedia