Francisco Herrera the Younger

Francisco Herrera the Younger (1622–1685), el Mozo, was a Spanish painter and architect, born in Seville, the son of painter Francisco Herrera the Elder. He fled his father's violent temper for Rome, where he studied architecture and fresco and became known for his still lifes of fish.

He returned to Seville in 1656, helped found the Seville Academy and in 1660 served under Murillo as sub-director. From about 1661 he worked in Madrid, where Philip IV made him court painter and superintendent of royal buildings. He designed the rebuilding of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, begun in 1681, and died in Madrid in 1685.