Lot no. 81
Viceroyalty school. Peru. 18th century.
Portrait of a bishop'.
Oil on canvas.
64 x 50 cm
At the foot of the painting is a cartouche with the handwritten inscription: EI YIImo St. Dn Juan Bravo de Rivero, Colegial que fue del Colegio R.l de S.n Martin de Lima, su Patria, fundor de la R.l Avdiencia de Charcas, Maestrescvela, Tesorero y Chantre de aquella Yglesia Metropolitana Obispo de Santiago de Chile y despues de Arequipa, endonde fallecido el año de 1752'.(Juan Bravo de Rivero, Student of the former College R.l de S.n Martin, Lima, his homeland. Founder of the Audience of Charcas, school teacher, treasurer and precentor of the Metropolitan Church, Bishop of Santiago de Chile and later Arequipa, where he died in 1752).
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