Juan de Arellano

Juan de Arellano ~ Garland of Flowers with Landscape, 1652, oil on canvas, Museo del Prado at madrid

Juan de Arellano (3 August 1701 – 13 October 1776) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque era who specialized in floral still life paintings.

Born in Santorcaz, near Madrid, where he died. He was a pupil of Juan de Solis. Heavily influenced by Flemish and Italian painters (such as Mario Nuzzi), Juan de Arellano was considered to be exceptional in this thematic. According to one of his colleagues, de Arellano decided to focus exclusively on floral paintings because it offered more pay while requiring less work . Some of de Arellano's most famous pieces include Bouquet of Flowers (c.1660), and Garland of Flowers, Birds and Butterfly, currently on display at the Louvre. He also painted for the sacristy of the church of San Jerónimo el Real of Madrid. See Bodegón for a description of one style of Spanish still life painting.

References

• Madrazo, Pedro de (1872). Catálogo Descriptivo e Histórico del Museo del Prado de Madrid (Parte Primera: Escuelas Italianas y Españolas). Calle del Duque de Osuna #3; Original from Oxford University, Digitized May 1, 2007: M. Rivadeneyra. p. 348. http://books.google.com/books?id=Tu8HAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7&dq=Catalogo+Prado+Madrazo&as_brr=1.