Francisco Salmerón

Francisco Salmerón (1608–1632) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.

Born in Cuenca, he was a pupil of Pedro Orrente, and followed his brother, the prominent Cristobal Garcia Salmerón (1603–1666), also a pupil of Orrente. Francisco painted in the church of San Francisco at Cuenca a Burial of Christ.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 441.