Fray Juan Bautista Maino (1581-1649)

• Was a Spanish Baroque painter.
• Maino was born in Pastrana, Guadalajara.
• His father was a merchant who sold Milanese fabrics and his mother was a Portuguese noblewoman.
• King Philip III called him to his Court in 1620, to teach drawing to his son, the future King Philip IV.
• At that time, Maíno became a sponsor of the young Diego Velázquez; choosing him, in a contest, to paint an "Expulsion of the Moors", which helped establish him at court.
• That painting did not survive the disastrous fire at the Royal Alcázar of Madrid in 1734.

• He died at the Colegio y convento de Santo Tomás in Madrid.

• Friar Juan Rizi may have been one of his students there. 

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