About Benito Manuel Agüero
Lived 1626 – 1668 (aged 41–42). Benito Manuel Agüero was a Spanish painter.
Vista del Campillo, oil on canvas (55 x 198 cm.), El Escorial, now deposited at the Museo del Prado. Benito Manuel Agüero (1626–1668) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Madrid as a landscape and battle painter.
Career Agüero was born in Burgos and was trained under Alonso Cano. Agüero's work included landscapes and representations of mythology and religion. He also contributed to the Buen Retiro and Aranjuez palace decorations.
He was a favorite of the King Philip IV. He was a pupil of Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo. He died in Madrid.
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Who was Benito Manuel Agüero?
Spanish artist
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Benito Manuel Agüero was born in 1626 in Burgos.
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Benito Manuel Agüero died on 19 March 1668 in Madrid.
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Benito Manuel Agüero was a painter.
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Benito Manuel Agüero was Spanish.
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