Pedro de Camprobín Passano (1605-1674)

• Was a Spanish Baroque painter.
• His father, Pedro, was a silversmith and his mother, Juana was descended from the Peroli brothers; painters from Genoa.
• At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to Luis Tristán in Toledo.
• He does not appear on the official record again until 1630, when he passed the exam for the painter's guild in Seville.
• From 1632 to 1634, he created the "Magdalena Repentant" at the Iglesia del Divino Salvador.
• He married and had two daughters, but was already a widower when he made out his will in 1670.
• Ten years earlier, he and other notable artists, such as Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Juan de Valdés Leal and Francisco Herrera, had participated in the creation of the "Academia de dibujo de Sevilla", in which he collaborated until his death.
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