Francisco Pacheco

[1] His first known painting is from 1589, Cristo con la Cruz a cuestas, which belonged to the Ybarra collection in Seville, although its current whereabouts is unknown.

[1] The following year he painted La Virgen de Belén, conserved in Granada Cathedral, and which is an exact copy of Marcellus Coffermans' original.

[1] From around 1594, together with Alonso Vázquez, with whom he collaborated, Pacheco was one of the most sought-after painters in Seville, until the arrival of Juan de Roelas in 1604.

[3] Pacheco's school emphasized the academically correct representation of religious subjects, not least because he was the official censor of Seville's Inquisition.

His own work reflects those constraints; paintings such as the Last Judgment (convent of Santa Isabel) and Martyrs of Granada are monumental in scale but unimaginative in treatment.