Baltazar Gomes Figueira (1604 – 1674)

• Was a Portuguese painter. 

• Baltazar Gomes Figueira was the son of Paulo Gomes Figueira and Luísa Lopes.

• His education passed through the city of Seville, where he pursued a military career and where he married.
• It was there where he had contact with other artists, from Herrera el Viejo, Francisco de Zurbarán and Juan del Castillo.
• He was an employee of the House of Bragança, in the court of D. João IV and D. Afonso VI.
• There he had the functions of painter and evaluator of works of art.
• In the Évora Museum, there is a still life section of the painter and his daughter. 

• His daughter was Josefa Ayala (Josefa de Óbidos).

• In the Church of Mercy of Peniche his art estate contains works by Baltazar and Josefa.

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