Saint Clare with a Monstrance by Sanchez Gallque
"Saint Clare with a Monstrance" attributed to Andres Sanchez Gallque (1600)
Andres Sanchez Gallque was an Ecuadorian painter active in Quito in 1599. He was one of the first students of the School of Arts and Crafts established by the Flemish Franciscan friar Jodoco Ricke in 1552 in the great convent of San Francisco de Quito, the first of this type created throughout South America.
In addition to his belonging to this monastery, we also know of his presence in the brotherhood of Nuestra Señora del Rosario, founded by the Dominican friar Pedro Bedón and of which a large number of artists were part. He successfully dedicated himself to both religious painting and portraiture. Of this last genre, an outstanding example is the work from the Prado Museum commissioned in 1599 by the chief judge of the Court of Quito, Juan del Barrio, as a gift for Philip III, being the oldest signed and dated portrait preserved from the Viceroyalty of the Peru.
Andrés Sánchez Galque signed his surname as Gallque, which would correspond to the sound of his indigenous surname, according to some documents preserved in the Museum of America (Madrid).
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