Mateo Cerezo, sometimes referred to as Mateo Cerezo the younger, (19 April 1637, Burgos – 29 June 1666, Madrid) was a Spanish Baroque painter, known primarily for religious works and still-lifes.

His father was the painter, Mateo Cerezo Muñoz (c. 1610–1670, sometimes referred to as "Mateo Cerezo the elder"), and Isabel Delgado, the daughter of a well-known goldsmith.^[1]

After receiving his initial training from his father, Cerezo went to Madrid where he studied with Juan Carreño de Miranda, becoming one his most promising students.^{[citation needed]} He was also employed in Carreño's workshops.^{[citation needed]}

His style was influenced by Antonio de Pereda, Carreño and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.^[2] He also appears to have been familiar with Titian, Veronese and Correggio, whose works he could have seen in the Royal collections.^{[citation needed]} He was active in Burgos, Valladolid and Valencia, as well as Madrid. His works ranged from altarpieces to small devotional paintings.^{[citation needed]}

His final work was a "Last Supper" for the refectory of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, which is known only from a print by José del Castillo, made in 1778. It was looted during the Peninsular War, and passed through several hands before disappearing during the Spanish Civil War.^[1]

He was married in 1664; he died two years later as the result of an unspecified serious illness. Despite his early death, he left a relatively large body of works, many of which may be seen at the Museo del Prado.^{[citation needed]}

• Ecce Homo, 1650, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
• Assumption of Mary (Asunción de María), c. 1650, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
• Desposorios místicos de Santa Catalina, Palencia Cathedral.
• The Assumption of Our Lady (La Asunción de Nuestra Señora), San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastián
• Magdalena penitente, c.1661, Rijksmuseum, Ámsterdam.
• Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, 1663, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
• Boda mística de Santa Catalina. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
• Bodegón de cocina. Museo del Prado, Madrid
• Una pobre alma ante el tribunal, Museo del Prado, Madrid.

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  The Assumption of the Virgin
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  The Nativity
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  Immaculate Conception

• Elias Tormo, Mateo Cerezo, Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología (Spanish Art and Archaeological Archives). 3. 1927, pgs. 113 ff., 245 ff.
• Antonio Palomino, An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects, 1724, first English translation, 1739, p. 89
• Juan Ruiz Carcedo, Maestros del arte burgalés (Masters of Burgalese Art). Burgos, 1997, p. 193-203 ISBN 84-7009-510-2

Media related to Mateo Cerezo at Wikimedia Commons

• Scholarly articles in English about Mateo Cerezo, el Joven. Attributed to both in web and PDF @ the Spanish Old Masters Gallery