an Italian painter. He Initially painted some works at Valladolid and helped his brother in painting at the Escorial for Philip II of Spain. When finished, he was employed for four years by the monks of the Chartreuse of el Paular to decorate their monastery with 54 canvases of historical figures the great cloister. He worked a great deal for the subsequent monarch, Philip IV, and his best pictures are those he executed for him as decorations in the Prado.
