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| Pantoja de la Cruz, Juan |
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(hwän pänt ´hä th lä kr th) (KEY) , 15531608, Spanish portrait painter, court painter to Philip II and Philip III; pupil and follower of Alonzo Sánchez Coello. The Prado contains beautiful examples of his severe portraiture and also a fine Nativity. |
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