Juan de Zurbarán (1620–1649),

• Was a Spanish Baroque painter.
• Juan de Zurbarán was born in Llerena, Badajoz, the son of Francisco de Zurbarán.
• He joined in the workshop that his father owned in Seville, with which it is likely they collaborated on different paintings, including the Still Life with Jug and Cups.
• He primarily painted still life genre.
• In 1641 he married Mariana de Cuadros, daughter of a rich merchant.
• Juan de Zurbarán's career was cut short by his early death at age 29.
• He contracted the plague during the epidemic that ravaged Sevilla in 1649 and was killed along with several of his brothers.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Saint Margaret of Antioch, 1630-4. 
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