Juan de Nisa Valdés Leal

Juan de Nisa Valdés Leal (born May 4, 1622, Sevilla, Spain—died October 15, 1690, Sevilla) was a painter, president of the Sevilla (Seville) Academy, and the major figure in Sevillian painting for many years, known for his dramatic, inventive, and often violent paintings. His father was Portuguese, and Valdés Leal was educated in Córdoba under the guidance of Antonio del Castillo and worked there until 1653. For the next few years he painted both in...