Juan de la Corte

Feast at the Plaza Mayor, Madrid, now at the Museo Municipal, Madrid

Juan de la Corte, a Spanish painter, was born at Madrid in 1597. He was instructed by Velazquez, and painted portraits and history, but chiefly excelled in battle-pieces and perspective views. He also painted small pictures of subjects from sacred history. He was painter to Philip III, and was continued in that situation by his successor, Philip IV. There are several of his pictures in the palace of Buen Retiro. He died at Madrid in 1660.

The Rape of Helen, now at the Museo del Prado, Madrid

References

This article incorporates text from the article "DE LA CORTE, Juan" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

External links

• Juan de la Corte at Hermitage