Francisco Herrera the Elder

1576–1656 · Baroque

Francisco Herrera (1576–1656) was a Spanish painter, born in Seville. He was the founder of the Seville school. He is known as El viejo, "the elder," to distinguish him from his son Francisco Herrera the Younger, also a noted painter.

18 paintings

• Santiago el Menor (1626)
• Exaltation of the Eucharist (1641)
• Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
• Saint Peter (1635)
• La Multiplication des pains (1700)
• St. Hermenegild's apotheosis (1620)
• St. Anthony Preaching to the Fishes (1630)
• San Bartolomé (1630)
• San Simón (1630)
• San Felipe (1635)
• San Juan (1616)
• Blind hurdy-gurdy player (1640)
• Saint Bonaventure Receiving Communion from the Hands of an Angel (1628)
• Saint Basil Dictating His Doctrine (1625)
• Saint Bonaventure receiving the Habit from Saint Francis (1628)
• San Jerónimo penitente (1650)
• Cabeza de santo degollado (1601)
• Saint Jerome (1640)