Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (1653-1726)

• Was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.
• Antonio Palomino was born to a respectable family at Bujalance, near Córdoba in 1655. 
• He studied philosophy, theology and law at Córdoba.
• Palomino had lessons in painting from Juan de Valdés Leal, who visited there in 1672, and afterwards from Juan de Alfaro y Gamez in 1675.
• Palomino moved to Madrid in 1678, where he associated with Alfaro, Claudio Coello, and Juan Carreño de Miranda.
• He soon afterwards married a lady of rank, and, having been appointed alcalde of the mesta, was himself ennobled
• In 1688 he was appointed painter to King Charles II.
• After the death of his wife in 1725 Palomino took priest's orders.
• He died on 13 August 1726.
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