Francisco Salmerón

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Francisco Salmerón (1608- 1632) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.

Born in Cuenca, he was a pupil of Pedro Orrente, and followed his brother, the prominent Cristobal Garcia Salmerón (1603-1666), also a pupil of Orrente. Francisco painted in the church of San Francisco at Cuenca a Burial of Christ.

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• Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 441.