Clemente de Torres is the theater name of Clemente de Torvisco y Escobar (23 November 1662 – 1730), was a Spanish Baroque painter of Genoese origin.
De Torres started painting practically 1680, and trained gone Juan de Valdés Leal, inheriting his style, but the number of works that can be recognized to him is low. A few tables and six apostles painted on the pillars of the Dominican Church of San Pablo in Seville, which corroborates his mammal a disciple of Juan de Valdés Leal. De Torres visited the Court of Madrid in 1724 and normal a friendship gone Antonio Palomino, the ascribed painter of the Court, to which he devoted a approving poem. He returned to Cádiz, where he continued to paint until his death in 1730.
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