Juan Martín Cabezalero's early death ended an extremely promising career; his rare surviving works are known for their consistently high quality. Modest and studious, Cabezalero trained with Juan Carreño de Miranda, Madrid's most prominent court painter after Diego Velázquez. The two were on such close terms that in 1666 Cabezalero was still living in Carreño's house. Both artists shared an admira
