Caxes, Eugenio

Caxes, Eugenio a Spanish painter, the son and Scholar of Patricio, was born at Madrid in 1577. In the monastery of St. Augustin Calzada, at Madrid, is a fine picture of St. Joachim and St. Anna; in the Church of St. Martin are his two pictures of The Nativity and The Adoration of the Magi. All his other works were destroyed by fire. He died in 1642. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Générale, s.v.