Diego de Borgraf

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'''Diego de Borgraf''' or '''Diego Borgraf'''<ref>Original Flemish name probably Borchgraeve. Also signed ''de Burclab''</ref> ([[Antwerp]], November 1618 – [[Puebla]], 4 March 1686) was a Flemish painter who after training in Antwerp and working at the court in Madrid, moved permanently to Puebla in Mexica.<ref name=rk>[https://ift.tt/37cIt0O Diego de Borgraf] at the [[Netherlands Institute for Art History]] <!--Dutch--></ref> Here he became one of the leading colonial painters, creating paintings of biblical figures and saints and portraits.<ref name=diego>Fernando E Rodríguez-Miaja, ''Diego de Borgraf: un destello en la noche de los tiempos: obra pictórica.'' Universidad Iberoamericana (Golfo-Centro). Puebla Patronato Editorial para la Cultura, Arte e Historia de Puebla 2001 </ref>

==Life==
Very little information is known about de Borgraf's early life and training in Flanders. At the time of Borgraf's birth in Antwerp in 1618, Flanders was a part of the dominions of the crown of Spain. He was the son of Lodewijk Borchgraeve and Joanna Ruebens.

Because of the Mannerist characteristics of his style is believed to have trained with the painter [[Hendrick de Clerck]], a court painter in Brussels. This would mean he would have worked in Brussels and possibly established a relationship with the court. This may explain how he subsequently travelled to Spain where he resided for several years. He left for America, accompanying Bishop [[Juan de Palafox y Mendoza]] in 1640. He reputedly was joined in the trip by the Aragonese painter [[Pedro García Ferrer]] (1583-1660), who must have been the principal artist in the Bishop's retenue since Borgraf was much younger.<ref name=diego/>
[[File:Diego de Borgraf - St. Judas Cyriacus.jpg|thumb|220px|''St. Judas Cyriacus'']]

As long as Palafox and García Ferrer remained in Mexico, Borgraf was not able to secure commissions on the scale of those undertaken by García Ferrer. However, when the latter returned with the bishop to Spain in 1649, Borgraf became one of the leading artists in Puebla, where he was recorded from around 1649.<ref name=diego/> Borgraf may be considered one of the founders of the Puebla painting tradition, which was different from the style of the capital Mexico, due to the direct influence of European painting in Puebla.<ref name=franc>[https://ift.tt/37dKlqm
Diego de Borgraf, ''Saint Francis of Assisi meditating'' at Museo Amparo</ref>

He operated in Puebla a workshop in which Diego and Antonio de Espinoza and José Márquez were his apprentices.<ref>Donna Pierce, Rogelio Ruiz Gomar, Clara Bargellini, ''Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521-1821.'' Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art University of Texas Press, 1 May 2004, pp. 161-164</ref>
==Work==
He painted biblical figures and saints as well as portraits. None of his pre-American works are known.<ref name=art>Arturo Albarrán Samaniego, '' Los Santos Ermitaños de Puebla, México. Un acercamiento a los grabados flamencos de Maarten de Vos y al discurso iconográfico de la Vida Antonii'', in: Potestas: Religión, poder y monarquía. Revista del Grupo Europeo de Investigación Histórica, ISSN 1888-9867, Nº. 13, 2018, pp. 45-75 </ref>

He originally painted in a [[tenebrist]] style but later moved to a more colorist approach. While the influence of Flemish painting is obvious in the detailed treatment of materials, his work generally shows a more important influence by Spanish painters such as Velazquez.

He worked on a commission for the the order of the Brothers Hospitallers of the convent of Our Lady of Bethlehem in Puebla. He produced, together with his workshop a series of 13 paintings of Hermit Saints of Puebla. The works illustrate the biographies of religious figures, have a vertical format and are no more than 1.5 m high and 80 cm. wide. The are executed in a Flemish in style. The compositional model for these works was derived from a number of engravings after design by the 16th century Flemish painter [[Maerten de Vos]].<ref name=art/>
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[[Category:Flemish Baroque painters]]
[[Category:Flemish history painters]]
[[Category:1618 births]]
[[Category:1686 deaths]]
[[Category:Artists from Antwerp]]

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