Juan Carreño de Miranda

Juan Serrano and Bartolomé Vicente are recorded as having studied under Juan Carreño de Miranda. The recorded working language is Spanish. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Madrid. Positions recorded include court painter. Works named in the authority record are Saint Sebastian, Eugenia Martinez Valleji, called La Monstrua and Eugenia Martínez Vallejo, desnuda. Work by Juan Carreño de Miranda is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nationalmuseum, Museum of Cádiz and Amsterdam Museum.

• Name — Juan Carreño de Miranda • Birth Name — Juan Carreño de Miranda • Born — 25 March 1614 • Birthplace — Avilés, Spain • Died — 3 October 1685 • Place of death — Madrid, Spain • Field — Painting

Born in Avilés in Asturias, his father was a painter with the same name, Juan Carreño de Miranda. His family moved to Madrid in 1623, and he trained in Madrid during the late 1620s as an apprentice to Pedro de las Cuevas and Bartolomé Román. He came to the notice of Velázquez for his work in the cloister of Doña María de Aragón and in the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary (Iglesia de la Virgen del Rosario), Marlofa, La Joyosa. In 1658, Carreño was hired as an assistant on a royal commission to paint frescoes in the Alcázar of Madrid; later destroyed in the fire of 1734. In 1671, upon the death of Sebastián de Herrera, he was appointed court painter to the queen (pintor de cámara) and began to paint primarily portraits. He refused to be knighted in the Order of Santiago, saying "Painting needs no honors, it can give them to the whole world". He is mainly recalled as a painter of portraits. His main pupils were Mateo Cerezo, Juan Martín Cabezalero, José Jiménez Donoso, and José de Ledesma. He died in Madrid. Noble by descent, he had an understanding of the workings and psychology of the royal court as no painter before him, making his portraits of the Spanish royal family in an unprecedented documentary fashion. Most of his work are portraits of the royal family and court, though there are some altarpieces, early works commissioned mainly by the church.

• Illustration — Charles II of Spain c. 1685 • Illustration — Claudia Felicitas of Austria • Illustration — The Assumption of the Virgin • Illustration — Portrait of the Duke of Pastrana (1649–1693) • Illustration — Charles II of Spain c. 1676 • Illustration — Portrait of Russian ambassador Pyotr Potemkin, 1681–1682 • Illustration — Queen Mariana of Austria • Illustration — Maria Theresa of Spain • Illustration — Inés de Zúñiga, Countess of Monterrey • Illustration — Penitent Mary Magdalene. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Madrid. Spain.