Alejandro de Loarte

Alejandro de Loarte (c.1590/1600 – 12 December 1626) was a Spanish painter active during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.

We do know that his father, a painter named Jerónimo de Loarte, was probably his first teacher and survived him.

His style is closely related to that of Luis Tristán, and the influence of Orrente is obvious.

A large canvas of "Saint Bernard with his Monks", in the convent of the Basilica of San Francisco el Grande, once believed to be the work of Francisco Pacheco, has been reattributed to him.

Still-lifes form the bulk of his work and he seems to have developed his style from the works of Juan Sánchez Cotán, but with a lighter touch that seems to follow Venetian examples.