Pacheco, Francisco
Related Category: European Art, 1600 to the Present: Biographies
(fränthēs´kō pächā´kō), c.1564–1654, Spanish portrait and religious painter. Although fine examples of his work are in the galleries of Madrid and Seville, he is best known as the instructor and father-in-law of Velázquez and as the author of
Arte de la pintura (1649), which contains interesting data on his great contemporaries.
