Carren(N)O (De Miranda), Don Juan

Carren(n)o (De Miranda), Don Juan an eminent Spanish painter, was born at Aviles, in the Asturias, in 1614, and studied at Madrid under Las Cuevas, and afterwards under Bartolome Romano. At Madrid he painted the celebrated cupola of Sant Pedro de l'Antonio, and a fine picture of Magdalene in the Desert, in the Convent de las Recogidas. He died in 1685. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Géneralé, s.v.