Follower of Juan Sánchez Cotán

Spanish school XVIII century. Follower of JUAN SÁNCHEZ COTÁN, (Orgaz, Toledo, 1560 - Granada, 1627).
"Still life with apples".
Oil on canvas.
Relined.
Measurements: 80.5 x 100 cm; 99 x 119 cm (frame).

Possible disciple of Blas de Prado and influenced by some of the artists who worked in El Escorial, as Luca Cambiaso or Juan Fernández Navarrete, and also by the Venetian masters, of whom he made numerous copies for private collectors, Juan Sánchez Cotán worked in Toledo, where he had an important clientele, until in 1603 he entered as a lay brother in the Carthusian monastery, settling in Granada. The bulk of his work is made up of religious paintings, especially the numerous ones he painted for the Carthusian monastery in Granada, although he also painted portraits and landscapes. However, he is famous for his still lifes, especially since the celebration in Madrid, in 1935, of the exhibition "Floreros y bodegones en la pintura española", which was key for the critical revaluation of the Spanish still life, and which turned Sánchez Cotán into one of its cornerstones. Sánchez Cotán enjoyed a comfortable life in Toledo, carrying out commissions for religious paintings for churches and also others of lesser importance, such as painting the arms of the archbishop of Toledo on each of a shoemaker. However, no disciples or assistants are mentioned in the documentation. Also around this time he made the aforementioned copies of Venetian works, and some landscapes. In his works of this time, a fully formed, refined and sweet style is evident, derived from the painters of the school of El Escorial, which remained virtually unchanged throughout his career. Works by Sánchez Cotán are currently held in the Prado Museum, the Fine Arts Museum of Granada, the San Diego Museum in California, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection in Princeton (USA), the Bowes Museum of Durham in the United Kingdom and other collections.