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 , and was continued in that situation by his successor, King 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
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "De la Corte, Juan". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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