TREASURES OF AL ANDALUS, OLD MASTERS, FINE ART AND ANTIQUES
Lote 270:
Oil on canvas. Measurements: 149 x 82 cm (framed), canvas measurements: 135 x 69 cm. Provenance, private collection, Spain. Francisco Polanco (died 1651), was a Spanish Baroque painter, born in Cazorla (Jaén) and active in Seville, where he is stylistically related to Francisco de Zurbarán. Little is known about this painter, about whom the only thing that is known is that he had a brother who was also a painter, named Miguel, and that he was buried in Seville in 1651. Signed works are a series of five half-length Apostles, preserved in the Museum Nacional de San Carlos de México DF, with markedly zurbaranesque features, and a Saint John the Baptist in the cathedral of Seville, with a more advanced style due to its expressiveness and sense of color, evidencing the knowledge of the work of the young Murillo, whose influence merges with that of Zurbarán.
