Juan Martín Cabezalero (1645 - 1673)

• Was a Spanish Baroque painter.
• Earlier accounts place his birth in 1633, but baptismal documents indicate that it was 1645.
• At some point, his family moved to Madrid, where he trained with Juan Carreño de Miranda.
• His first signed work dates from 1666; a depiction of Saint Jerome, now at the Meadows Museum in Dallas.
• He executed three canvases in collaboration with José Jiménez Donoso.
• The last documents relating to his life are an appraisal of his art collection and a will, which he was unable to sign himself.
• His estate passed to his mother, Isabel, who survived him by ten years.
• Per his wishes, he was interred at St Sebastian's Church, Madrid.
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