Gaspar de Figueroa

Biography

Gaspar de Figueroa Gaspar de Figueroa Saucedo (c. 1594–1658) was a New Granadian painter. Figueroa was born in Mariquita to painter Baltasar de Figueroa the Elder and Catalina Saucedo. He learned to paint from his father, who owned a studio. Figueroa lived the majority of his life in Santa Fe de Bogotá, where he started his own studio. His son, Baltasar Vargas de Figueroa, was also a painter. His portrait of Cristóbal de Torres y Motones is housed at the University of Rosario.

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