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Conchillos, Juan
(b Valencia, 1641; d Valencia, 1711). Spanish painter and draughtsman. He was a pupil of Esteban March, on whose death c. 1668 he went to Madrid to work under José García Hidalgo, who subcontracted commissions to him. There he copied paintings in the royal collection. A signed Immaculate Conception (c. 167075; Madrid, priv. col., see D. Angulo Iñiguez, pl. 346) shows his admiration for a more Baroque and dynamic interpretation and the more glowing colours of the Madrid school. Around 1680 Conchillos was in Alicante, where he decorated the camerín in the convent of the Santa Faz (Convent of the Holy Face) with themes relating to the legend of this holy relic painted in a more vivid Baroque style. There he knew the sculptor Nicolás de Bussy, who became godfather to his two children in 1682 and 1684.
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