He was born in Orotava (Tenerife ) in 1616 within a family from the town of Santa Ursula . Combined the pictorial activity ecclesiastical career. His training took place in Seville workshops with an influence of Zurbarán forms. He developed his pictorial work on the island of Tenerife , especially in the city of Tacoma where six paintings made by figuring the Immaculate Conception, Annunciation, St. Joseph's Dream, Dead Christ, Santa Catalina and San Felipe . It "summarizes the characteristics of the paint Cana-seventeenth century in Rias "in the words of the teachers-ra Carmen Fraga . He addresses religious issues and implementation of portraits. His style is baroque influences within Zurbarán, painters sevilla -us and Flemish engravings. His contributions have been vital to his disciples and pin - factors later nineteenth century until , he begins to prevail the neoclassical trend. Works
important Box Ani-mas of the Parish of Victory -yew Acen -It should be noted, as a curiosity, which are frequent pictures of the souls in Purgatory, in the churches of the Canary Islands, MERCY OF CALVARY CHAPEL OF THE OROTAVA , OIL ON CANVAS TITLED THE PENANCE OF ST SUNDAY IN THE CHAPEL OF THE CANDELARIA NEIGHBORHOOD OF SPINE IN THE OROTAVA , ade-over Our Lady of Mercy in the Church of the Poor Clares of La Laguna, and various versions of La Purisima.
According to Professor Carmen Fraga : Gaspar Quevedo of , from his baptism in 1616 to 1652 have found no documentary quoted him: that is, has thirty-six years old when his name appears in the archives. This is most unusual in that due to his church or his painting should be mentioned, but not so. All invited to believe that it was in La Orotava , further analysis of his artistic production test known pictures of the Seville school of the time. For example, in Zurbarán. It is therefore likely to study in Sevilla , perhaps around the Preachers, Order protected in the valley of Taoro the House Committee. With which the painter will have relationships. The truth is that he was a cleric and a BA is cited several documents, for example, in the will of his mother, said that his son is "priest" and his lawyer calls codicil as we read in the Book of Chaplains and Brothers of the Brotherhood of Anirnas in Conception Parish in his hometown (La Orotava ). Again it is mentioned and also a priest, in the public letter signed when received, as the steward of the shrine of Our Lady of Peace (within the Orotava ), some clothes for the image owner. Which gives Don Juan de Mesa and Lugo Ayala . Curiously, the last wishes of the parent of this, Don Lope Mesa, speaks of a chaplain who held a Gaspar Afonso and that the death had held other. Since the will is dated 1648, can not refer to the painter
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