TORRES, Clemente de
(b. ca. 1662, Cádiz, d. 1730, Cádiz)

Biography

Spanish painter. He trained in Seville in the workshop of Juan de Valdés Leal. He probably began to paint c. 1680 yet, despite a long career, very little of his work is known. He must have been known at the court in Madrid, as he is documented there in 1724 and was a friend of the writer and Painter to the King, Antonio Palomino y Velasco. The sonnet Torres dedicated to Palomino indicates that he also had some literary training.