Artist
Juan de Pareja
Spanish, 1606–1670
Juan de Pareja was a Spanish Spanish Baroque Tenebrist painter. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Museo del Prado, most of them oil paintings. Juan de Pareja was born in Antequera.
Juan de Pareja (c. 1606 – c. 1670) was a Spanish painter. Born enslaved, he is known primarily as a member of the household and workshop of painter Diego Velázquez, who freed him in 1650. His 1661 work The Calling of Saint Matthew (sometimes also referred to as The Vocation of Saint Matthew) is on display at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain.
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