Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera (1695-1768)

• Was a Mestizo painter born in Oaxaca.
• He moved to Mexico City, the capital of Viceroyalty of New Spain.
• He may have studied under the Rodríguez Juárez brothers or José de Ibarra.
• Cabrera was a favorite painter of Archbishop Manuel José Rubio y Salinas, whose portrait he twice painted.
• In 1753, he founded the second Academy of Painting in Mexico City and served as its director.

• Most of the rest of his works are also religious in nature; as the official painter of the Archbishop of Mexico, Cabrera painted his and other portraits.

• In 1760, Cabrera created The Virgin of the Apocalypse, which describes the chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation.

• Cabrera is currently most famous for his casta paintings.
• One of the sixteen in the set that was missing for many years was purchased by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2015.
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