Juan Fernández el Labrador

Juan Fernández, nicknamed El Labrador, was a Spanish Baroque painter active between 1629 and 1636, specializing in still life painting.

Art historian Antonio Palomino, devoted a few lines to "Juan Labrador Painter Illustrious", supposing him to be a disciple of Luis de Morales and who died in Madrid, very old, around 1600.

At least two works of the painter came to Charles I of England, one of which, Still life with grapes, quince and nuts, still belongs to the British Royal Collection, which appeared in 1639 and inventoried.

His international standing was completed with the arrival of one of his paintings to the French court to Anne of Austria, sister of Philip IV of Spain and wife of Louis XIII of France.

In addition to the works with grapes, there were references to other fruits and flowers and even a landscape ('Payssico three quarters of high and average width Bara bunches of Ubas and some apricots (...) Labrador ") in the collection of Francisco Gonzalez Cossio, knight of Santiago, according to the inventory that it was made in 1671, which seems to indicate, despite the almost total absence of spatial references in his works known in his painting was not confined to the still lifes.