Fray Pedro Bedón y Díaz de Pineda (1556–1621) 

• Was an Ecuadorian Dominican friar and painter of the Quito school.
• Fray Pedro Bedón was born in 1556 in Quito, then part of the Viceroyalty of Peru (present-day Ecuador).

• He entered the novitiate of the Dominican order at the age of fourteen, completed his studies in Lima, and was then appointed professor of philosophy in the college of that city.

• He studied painting under Italian artist Bernardo Bitti in Lima.

• Several of his works are in the convents of Quito and Santa Fe, and are said to justify the title his countrymen gave him of the Fra Angelico of Ecuador.

• He founded the convent of La Peña in Quito, and then went to Rio-Bomba, where he founded another convent, but returned to Quito on learning that he had been elected prior of La Peña.

• In 1619 he was chosen provincial of his order, which office he held until his death in Quito in 1621. 

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