ARELLANO, Juan de
(b. 1614, Santorcaz, d. 1676, Madrid)

Basket of Flowers

c. 1670
Oil on canvas, 84 x 100 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

During the 1640s, flower paintings from Antwerp and Rome began to be collected in Madrid and, by 1650, Arellano was producing distinctive versions of this pleasing subject. In later years he became a brilliant practitioner of the genre, taming the exuberance of his Flemish models by concentrating his formidable powers of observation on individual species.




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