Pedro de las Cuevas, a Spanish painter, was born at Madrid in 1568. According to Palomino, he painted several pictures for private collections,
for which he was more employed than for public edifices. He gained, however, more celebrity by his academy than by his own works. Some of the most distinguished painters of the time, such as Josef Leonardo

Jusepe Leonardo

Jusepe Leonardo was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, active during his maturity in the court in Madrid.He was born at Calatayud in Aragon, and was a pupil of Eugenio Caxés. He trained with Pedro de La Cueva, and became known for his battle paintings...

, Antonio Pereda

Antonio de Pereda

Antonio de Pereda was a Spanish Baroque-era painter, best known for his still lifes. Pereda was born in Valladolid. He was the eldest of three brothers from an artistic family. His father, mother and two brothers were all painters. He was educated in Madrid by Pedro de las Cuevas and was taken...

, Antonio Anias

Antonio Fernandez Arias

Antonio Fernández Arias was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.He was a precocious pupil of Pedro de las Cuevas, and employed at the age of 11 years to help in painting the main altar of chapel of Carmen Calzado de Toledo...

, and Juan Careño

Juan Carreño de Miranda

Juan Carreño de Miranda was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.Born in Avilés in Asturias, son of a painter with the same name, Juan Carreño de Miranda. His family moved to Madrid in 1623, and he trained in Madrid during the late 1620s as an apprentice to Pedro de Las Cuevas and Bartolomé Roman...

, were educated in his school, called the School of Madrid, which was distinguished for its extraordinary and masterly colouring. He died at Madrid in 1635.