Eugenio Cajés (1575–1634)

• Was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
• He was born into a Florentine family in Madrid.

• He wrote his name in a variety of ways (Cajés, Cazés, Caxesi, and Caxete).

• His father, Patricio, was a disciple of Alessandro Allori and was recruited to Spain by the ambassador Luis de Requesens.

• Caxés painted in the royal palaces of King Philip II of Spain.

• He married the daughter of the disgraced Juan Manzano, master carpenter for the Escorial, who died in a fall from a scaffold. 

• Caxés was commissioned by the administration of King Philip III to decorate the room for royal audiences in Madrid.

• Most of his works were completed in Madrid.

• Along with Vincenzo Carducci he painted the chapel of Our Lady del Sagrario in Toledo, and the canvases of the Retablo Mayor del Monasterio de Guadalupe.

• Among his pupils are Luis Fernández and the barrister Valpuesta.

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