Francisco Camilo
Illustration — Assumption of the Virgin by Francisco Camilo, Hermitage Museum, 1666 • Illustration — Adoration of the Kings, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. • Illustration — San Juan Bautista en Orla de Flores (private collection) Francisco Camilo (Madrid 1610–Madrid 1671) was a Spanish painter, the son of an Italian immigrant who had settled in Madrid. When his father died, his mother remarried, and Camilo became the stepson of the painter Pedro de las Cuevas. De las Cuevas brought Camilo up as his own son, teaching him to paint.
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Francisco Camilo
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- Francisco Camilo was born, sources differ on the date (in 1610 and in 1615). · Madrid.
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Illustration — Assumption of the Virgin by Francisco Camilo, Hermitage Museum, 1666 • Illustration — Adoration of the Kings, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. • Illustration — San Juan Bautista en Orla de Flores (private collection) Francisco Camilo (Madrid 1610–Madrid 1671) was a Spanish painter, the son of an Italian immigrant who had settled in Madrid. When his father died, his mother remarried, and Camilo became the stepson of the painter Pedro de las Cuevas. De las Cuevas brought Camilo up as his own son, teaching him to paint.
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At the age of 18, Camilo was asked to paint for the high altar of the Jesuits’ house at Madrid an image representing St. Francis Borgia (which was afterwards removed to make way for an altarpiece in plastic). The Count-Duke of Olivares ordered Camilo to produce a series of paintings of Kings of Spain for the theater of Buenretiro. The Count-Duke also chose Camilo to adorn the western gallery of the palace with 14 frescoes from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Primarily a painter of religious works, Camilo painted for the monasteries of Madrid, Toledo, Alcalá, and Segovia. He painted and draped some of the statuary of Manuel Pereyra.
The recorded working language is Spanish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Positions recorded include court painter. Work by Francisco Camilo is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Hermitage Museum, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer.
• Scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses (1641), Alcázar de Madrid, now destroyed • San Juan de Dios (1650), Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Durham, England • Saint Louis of France (1651), Sarasota Museum • San Jerónimo azotado por los ángeles (1651), Museo del Prado, Madrid • Martyr of Saint Bartholomew (1651), Museo del Prado • Adoration of the Kings (Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilba) • San Carlos Borromeo y los apestados, the New Cathedral of Salamanca • San Pedro consagrando a San Torcuato, Hospital Tavera, Toledo • San José con el Niño dormido, Huesca Museum • Altarpiece of Santorcaz (Madrid) (1656) • Altarpiece of Otero de Herreros (1659), Segovia • Altarpiece of the Virgin of Fuencisla (1662), Segovia • Conversion of Saint Paul, Provincial Museum, Segovia • Muerte de San Pablo Ermitaño, Museo del Prado • San Juan Bautista en orla de flores, private collection • Asunción de la Virgen (1666), Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg • Adoration of the Shepherds, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin • Statuary of Manuel Pereyra • Ascension, (1651), Museu Nacional d´Art de Catalunya
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1610
Francisco Camilo was born on 1 January 1610.
1673
Francisco Camilo died on 9 August 1673.
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Francisco Camilo was born at Madrid.
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Francisco Camilo died at Madrid.
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Francisco Camilo was born in Madrid.
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Francisco Camilo died in Madrid.
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