Juan de Valdés Leal (1622–1690)

• Was a Spanish painter and etcher of the Baroque era.
• By his twenties, he was studying under Antonio del Castillo in Córdoba.
• He became friends with Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
• After Leal returned to Seville in 1656, he and Murillo founded the Seville Academy of Art.
• Several of his paintings treat the subjects of vanitas, transience and mortality.
• He married Isabella Carasquilla, daughter of Antonio Palomino, in 1647.
• She was also a painter.
• He and his wife had five children, several of whom were also artists: Lucas, Juan, Maria, and Laura.
• His daughters specialized in portrait miniatures.
• Valdés died in Seville in 1690. 
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