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Burgos Mantilla, Francisco de
(b Burgos, 1612; d Madrid, 1 April 1672). Spanish painter. He was in Madrid from 1618, where he trained under Pedro de las Cuevas, and he later became a disciple of Velázquez. Though renowned for his portraits, his only known work is the small Still-life with Dried Fruit, signed and dated 1631 (New Haven, CT, Yale U. A.G.). The picture’s restrained tonal range and painterly technique clearly betray Burgos Mantilla’s admiration for Velázquez. Depicting an apparently casual arrangement of packets of dried fruit and nuts, its intuitive composition is closer to still-lifes by Italian followers of Caravaggio than to the studied artifice found in those by such Spanish painters as Juan van der Hamen y León. Burgos Mantilla may have been encouraged in this direction by Velázquez, who returned from Italy in the year that the former’s picture was painted. However, a similar naturalness is found in still-lifes by such contemporaries of Burgos Mantilla as Juan Bautista de Espinosa, the artist’s friend, and Antonio de Pereda, a fellow pupil of Pedro de las Cuevas.
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