17^th Century Spanish

Also known as Tomás Hiepes, little is actually known about his life except that his first signed works date from 1642. From a stylistic viewpoint, his compositions are somewhat archaic when compared with what was being done in Madrid at that time. He executed his works with a heightened sense of symmetry, order, delineation of silhouettes and Tenebrist lighting, lending great significance to the depiction of the qualities of the materials seen in his paintings, following the example set by artists such as Juan van der Hamen. His works represented flowers and still lifes, utensils, baskets, a variety of food, and even hunting scenes following Italian models.

There is evidence that Tomás Yepes also experimented with other subject matters, including genre or religious painting. A surviving example of the latter is the Virgen de los Desamparados (1644) at the convent of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid.