Alejandro de Loarte

Alexandro Loarte was a Spanish painter, active during the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque period. He was born in Toledo and initially trained with El Greco. He painted a Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (1622) for the Mission Friars and a hunting painting with Hens and Chickens (1626).

Alejandro de Loarte, John the Baptist.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 67.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)