Life of CLEMENTE DE TORRES

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  Spanish painter. He trained in Seville in the workshop of Juan de Valds Leal. He probably began to paint c. 1680 yet, despite a long career, very little of his work is known. He must have been known at the court in Madrid, as he is documented there in 1724 and was a friend of the writer and Painter to the King, Antonio Palomino y Velasco. The sonnet Torres dedicated to Palomino indicates that he also had some literary training.