Busca, Antonio

Busca, Antonio a Milanese painter, was born in 1625. He studied under Procaccini, and painted, in competition with that master, a picture of the Virgin, Mary Magdalene, and St. John, in the church of San Marco. He died in 1686. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.