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Alejandro de Loarte (c.1590/1600 – 12 December 1626) was a Spanish painter active during the lateRenaissance and earlyBaroque periods. He specialized instill-lifes.
There is very little biographical information available and most of the dates in his life are approximations. We do know that his father, a painter named Jerónimo de Loarte, was probably his first teacher and survived him. At his death, he was in charge of a prestigious studio in Madrid and, just before his death inToledo, named the artistPedro Orrente as hisexecutor.
His religious paintings varied in quality; some were even copies. His style is closely related to that ofLuis Tristán, and the influence of Orrente is obvious. A large canvas of "Saint Bernard with his Monks", in the convent of theBasilica of San Francisco el Grande, once believed to be the work ofFrancisco Pacheco, has been reattributed to him.
Still-lifes form the bulk of his work and he seems to have developed his style from the works ofJuan Sánchez Cotán, but with a lighter touch that seems to follow Venetian examples. Many of them also contain human figures; after the style ofBartolomeo Passerotti. Their composition is very symmetrical and somewhat crowded.
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