Gaspar Becerra

[2] In 1551 Prince Philip of Spain donated funds to commission Becerra to provide a gold tabernacle for San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, the Spanish national church in Rome.

[2] In 1562 he completed the main retable for the altar of the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales, which was considered his master work.

[citation needed] He became court painter at Madrid around 1563,[1] and played a prominent part in the establishment of the fine arts in Spain.

[2] Among his pupils were Miguel Barroso, who worked at Toledo in 1585, and, after becoming royal painter in 1589, painted some frescoes in the El Escorial; Bartolomé del Río Bernuís; Francisco López and Jerónimo Vázquez.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem, "Gaspar Becerra", included in his 1850 collection The Seaside and the Fireside.