Claudio Coello

Claudio Coello (1642–1693) was a Spanish Baroque painter born in Madrid to Portuguese parents. Trained under Francisco Rizi, he studied Titian, Rubens and van Dyck in the royal collection, worked in Rome, and painted frescoes in Madrid and Toledo with José Jiménez Donoso.

Named court painter to Charles II, he spent seven years on his masterpiece, the altarpiece of the Adoration of the Miraculous Host in the sacristy of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, with over fifty court portraits. Regarded as the last great Spanish painter of the century, he died in Madrid in 1693.