Bocanegra, Don Pedro Atanasio

Bocanegra, Don Pedro Atanasio, a Spanish painter, was born at Granada in 1638, and studied under Alonso Cano and Pedro de Moya and Vandyck. There is a picture by him of the Conception, in the cloister of Nuestra Senora de Gracia, at Granada, considered very fine, and one of his best works in the Jesuit College, representing the Conversion of Paul.